Word: mca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cooder: The Border (Backstreet/ MCA). Texas blues and a theme song straight from the heart: the sound track from the hard-boiled movie...
...those companies will be declining, and that will help profits. Next they moved to housing-related stocks that would benefit if the lower interest rates encourage a pickup in homebuilding. Their favorites: Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Anticipating that consumer spending would increase, Rolland bought Sears, Roebuck and Co., MCA, Procter & Gamble and two drug companies, Syntex and American Home Products. Smaller, profitable airlines, which would benefit as travel increased in a healthier economy, also looked good, so Chemical bought US Air and PSA. One industry group that he totally avoided was energy stocks. Says Rolland: "I'm still...
...founder and president of the Music Corporation of America guided its growth from a small band-booking agency into a billion-dollar entertainment empire; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Stein, who helped pay his way through medical school by playing violin and saxophone, started MCA in 1924 and eventually abandoned his medical career to lead the company's expansion during the 1930s and '40s into a national booking service for top bands and Hollywood stars. MCA became known as the "octopus" for its extensive holdings in the entertainment industry, which by the late '50s included...
...most sophisticated videodisc players currently available are Magnavision, a joint venture of the Dutch electronics firm Philips and the American entertainment company MCA, and LaserDisc, a product of the Japanese electronics firm Pioneer. Both use playback machines that read pictures and sound from a metallic record via a laser beam that never physically touches the platter. With LaserDisc the viewer can select which of the up to 54,000 frames on the record he wants to see by pushing buttons on a keyboard; each frame has its own number. For instance, on a disc that contains images of art masterpieces...
...attorneys are expected to include in their defense the issue of freedom of the press. But Burnett, among others, argues that the First Amendment also requires a responsibility on the part of the news organization. Her attorneys are lining up supporting testimony from such witnesses as Kissinger, MCA Chairman Lew Wasserman (Kissinger's dinner partner at the Washington restaurant, reportedly the Rive Gauche) and Burnett's husband, Producer Joe Hamilton...