Word: joined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in the era of the megamerger, this one was remarkable. No wonder the press and public were fascinated by the announcement that Time Inc. and Warner Communications would join to form the world's largest information and entertainment company. From Tokyo to Paris to Hollywood, media moguls sized up the new firm, trying to gauge its potential clout in the increasingly fierce international battle for the attention of readers, filmgoers and television viewers. The New York Times proclaimed that the union would "insure Time Warner a place in the 1990s as one of a handful of global media giants...
...here breaking that rule to reinforce the point, because on March 4, 1989, Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announced they would join to create a new company, Time Warner Inc., which would be the leading information and entertainment company in the world, with revenues of more than $10 billion...
...honesty, Bernstein upholds the honor of his parents. They were never subversives, never disloyal to their country, he says. His sensitivity to Alfred and Sylvia (both still living) means that he never quite penetrates the deepest questions: Exactly why did people like them join the Communist Party? Just what did they do at their cell meetings? Was there in fact some danger in having people working for the Government whose loyalty was also to the Communist Party? And, on a more personal level, does he feel he has betrayed the father he clearly loves very deeply...
...Americans of Irish descent will celebrate St. Patrick's Day by donning green hats, marching through the streets shouting "Erin go bragh!" and proudly proclaiming their Irishness to anyone who will listen. Yet as many as 100,000 natives of Ireland, newly arrived in the U.S., will hesitate to join the parades. They live in the fearful shadow world of the illegal alien...
...Frank Lorenzo hopes to rebuild the airline. -- A new Third World debt plan. -- Time and Warner join forces to form a communications giant...