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...this promise by devoting as much as 40% of its daily general-service programming to educational purposes: lessons in calligraphy, the guitar, economics, political science, English, French, German and Russian. News takes up a considerable 35% of general programming, entertainment only 24%. One recent highlight: The Silk Road, a multimilliondollar, 30-hour epic that explores contemporary life along the ancient Chinese and Central Asian routes followed by the silk caravans. NHK's second channel is dedicated to education and often works in tandem with the nation's primary schools. It also offers Shakespeare, symphonic music, Noh plays...
...most remarkable religious conversions since Paul stopped kicking against the goad, Flynt last week announced that he had been recruited for Christ by Evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the President's sister. Hustler will be reborn as a "religious" skin magazine, he added, and his multimilliondollar, 400-employee empire of magazines and sex products may be turned into a nonprofit religious foundation. As Flynt told a Pentecostal congregation in Houston, where he had gone for the National Women's Conference: "I owe every woman in America an apology...
...including some 80 trips abroad in quest of material and the salaries of all his assistants (who have usually numbered about a dozen). Lewis does not like to discuss the project's costs; the Yale University Press will say only that by present-day evaluation, it is a "multimilliondollar venture." Except for the first couple of years, when he operated out of an office in the Yale library with one assistant, Lewis has also supplied working quarters at his estate near Connecticut's Farmington River...
...Arnold Peter MØller, founded the firm, and it is named after him. A. P. MØller made the most of his small stake, and in 1904 he was able to buy a secondhand steamer. He parlayed that one vessel into what is now a multimilliondollar empire. A believer in running a tight ship, A. P. MØller was one of Denmark's richest men when he died in 1965 at the age of 88. He passed the helm of the company to his son, Maersk McKinney* MØller, now 54, who commands his diverse...
...lines of cars, A.M.C. is less able to shift assembly lines to a stronger sell (the Ambassador) from a weak one (the American). The company has also been hurt by unsuccessful design. Moreover, running close to the line on finances, A.M.C. is less able to withstand the kind of multimilliondollar styling or engineering mistake that every auto company is susceptible to but that the Big Three manufacturers can easily write...