Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Time said it would give the Paramount bid a fair hearing, as the law requires, there was every indication that Time's top executives would fight to repel the intruder. In a three-page "Dear Mr. Davis" letter, Munro chastised the Paramount chairman for breaking his spoken agreement to leave Time alone: "On a personal level, I'm disappointed that I can't rely on you as a man of your word. Live and learn." Munro said the Paramount offer consisted of "smoke and mirrors," since it was subject to several conditions that included Paramount's ability to obtain...
...which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These guys really know how to write a letter...
...songs as boy meets girl. The Environmental Media Association, a clearinghouse for save-the-earth societies, is fronted by such heavyweights as Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Creative Artists Agency President Michael Ovitz, MCA President Sid Sheinberg, and Lear, who with his wife Lyn was a group founder. At the letter-stuffing level, the Earth Communications Office is targeting the few thousand actors, writers, producers and directors whose work reaches billions of people. In seminars and trips, ECO will educate creative folk on earth-shaking issues...
...think you and your untermenschen are full of it," read one letter. 'Untermenschen' is a term Nazi leaders used to describe Jews and other non-Aryan groups...
Wilson: Not as much as they do as when I was younger. I can remember receiving a letter from a college that had an opening that I was applying for that said, 'your credentials are wonderful, you should be an associate professor instead of an assistant professor, but we don't want to hire you [because you are a woman].' That would never happen today. Someone might think it, but one would never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never...