Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, West Germany's Bertelsmann bought RCA Records and the Doubleday and Bantam Books publishing houses; Britain's Robert Maxwell took over Macmillan publishers; Japan's Sony acquired CBS Records; and Australian-born Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen) accumulated newspapers, magazines, a movie studio and a TV network. Said Time's Munro: "We see Maxwell, Murdoch, Bertelsmann and Sony coming into our market and raising hell, and we see this ((merger)) as an opportunity for an American company to get competitive." In fact, Time Warner would vault ahead of the competition. Bertelsmann, whose annual revenues are nearly $7 billion...
...management will be unified, with Nicholas as the chief executive. "We're not going to crash these two companies together," said Nicholas. Both Time and Warner believe their greatest opportunities for cooperation and growth lie overseas. Ross, for example, hopes to use Warner's worldwide film-and-TV-distribution network to market HBO programming...
...story began 15 years ago. California was fat with grant money from the 1972 Federal Clean Water Act, so state bureaucrats planned a regional sewage system for Arcata and two neighboring cities accused of dumping inadequately treated wastewater into Humboldt Bay. The plan envisioned a network of pipelines carrying sewage from the bay's communities to a central disposal plant. New state legislation banned pumping waste-water into bays and estuaries unless a city's effluents "enhanced" them...
...Monday, several hours after Discovery's liftoff, the crew completed its primary task--deployment of a $100 million Tracking Data and Relay Satellite to complete a communications network that will allow shuttle astronauts to have nearly constant contact with Mission Control...
...hours after liftoff, Springer and Bagian were to deploy the 24-ton Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. It will then be carried by its own rocket to a 22,300-mile-high orbit to join two older satellites and complete an orbiting network essential for communicating with future space shuttles and with science and military satellites...