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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough, abrasive Barry Diller, 44, who suddenly skipped over to become head of 20th Century-Fox. The reason for Diller's departure: differences over management style with Gulf & Western CEO Martin Davis. Diller was followed out the door by Paramount President Michael Eisner, 44, who accepted an offer to become chairman of Disney. A number of senior Paramount production executives departed in the duo's wake. Recalls Ned Tanen, 55, currently head of Paramount's motion-picture group: "Frank (Mancuso) and I felt like we were in Beau Geste, defending the fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Mancuso: Hollywood's Top Gun | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...both CDs and 45s. Seeburg also confronts the new video jukeboxes produced by Laser Video Music and Rowe. They play music videotapes on 25-in. color screens. Since video jukeboxes, which charge 50 cents a play, were first introduced three years ago, some 700 have been installed. They typically offer 45 different selections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jukeboxes: Bopping to a Different Beat | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...rebels have held on through several funding crises in recent years, there are doubts in both the U.S. and Central America that they can survive the current ordeal. Last week, as the U.S. press analyzed the contras' prospects in funereal tones, some officials went so far as to offer up eulogies. "I think the counterrevolution is nearly over," said a Latin American military analyst. "If the contras could do something in the next few weeks, that might change things, but they are not capable of it." Even a contra official saw the end coming. "We have got four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Is It Curtains? | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Mary Jo Bane, who left the Kennedy School to take the job of deputy commissioner of the New York state department of social services in 1984, received the tenure offer one year later. Her New York position put her second in command of a budget of $16 billion that covered the New York's welfare, medicare programs and more...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: K-School Woman Prof Returns | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

...There's an assumption here of equality which overlooks what each students has to offer individually," Craig says. "If one were to assume that every student at Harvard was essentially the same as every other student, that would be overlooking what each student has to offer on his or her own--the unique perspective each...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: Paying the Price of a Harvard Education | 12/18/1986 | See Source »

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