Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logical move but ultimately a poor acquisition. The unit, which last year accounted for 34% of the company's revenues, has been losing market share in the $6 billion financial-information business. "Dow Jones has been fading away," says Jim Dougherty, an analyst with Prudential Securities. "They have not kept up with the investment in technology." Bloomberg's and Reuters' terminals are technologically superior and more flexible, and they offer unique features such as historical data and analytics. And the Internet is a font of information. "There are going to be two levels of service," says Michael Bloomberg, founder...
...bare-naked ladies, it required no small measure of ingenuity. Were Dad's Playboys hidden somewhere in the den? In the back of his bedroom closet? The dresser? Under the bed? Could they be removed--and replaced--without detection? I should hasten to add that my own father kept no smut in the house, at least that I ever found, but a good friend's dad had quite the cache of Playboys, as well as a couple of "naturist" magazines. That's how life was lived in those days, and nobody had to convene a three-day summit meeting...
...times, Blondie and me," says Brown. "He busted me for having a gun, and I was lucky to get off with probation." No hard feelings, says Brown. "I didn't have no permit for the gun." More important, says Brown, "you got to say that Blondie and them kept a lot of the worst of the stuff around here down, no matter how they went about...
Five Squad was a coveted assignment. The officers kept their own hours--although there was always a designated eight-hour shift. "That was so we could make arrests at the end of our tour and get overtime doing the paperwork," says Blondie. In a typical year, he and his fellow Five Squad officers made $60,000 or higher, more than double their salary...
...Helen joined Jessica Walter on the Amy Prentiss sleuth series; a year later, she was a regular on Swiss Family Robinson. And the roles kept rolling in. "We made a deal," Gordon Hunt recalls. "She could work as long as she had a B average. With most kids, if they get a B, you promise them a vacation. With Helen, if she got a B, she got to work. Work was her playtime. I could see there was a really mature soul in there." Casting directors noticed the same thing: Helen had not a sexual but an emotional, intellectual precocity...