Word: owned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, all the channels were blocked off for them to voice their own opinions. Any move they took to express themselves had been regarded as interference with the government and conducive to political instability, thereby meriting suppression.
...much access the Time- Warner group will give to its competition," says an executive of a rival cable company. According to a study by Michael Salinger, a professor of public policy at the Columbia University business school, system operators may indeed show bias toward their own networks over channels owned by other companies. Says he: "I found that ATC systems tend to favor HBO and Cinemax," an affiliated pay service. "Similarly, Viacom ((which also owns cable systems)) tends to favor Showtime...
In a city known for world-class pornography, Hurlbut has carved a swath of reform. An executive-search consultant in his more mundane life, the burly 59- year-old launched a second career as an anti-vice crusader a decade ago. He began by leading a covey of angry citizens...
In a different kind of week, the three U.S. warships that sailed up the Huangpu River last Friday and docked in the waters off Shanghai would have been the talk of the town. After all, this was only the second time since 1949 that the U.S. Navy had visited China...
And for their newest, most invigorating collaboration, these three godfathers of the '80s action epic have adopted a father of their own. Sean Connery, who as James Bond helped sire the thrill-machine genre, brings his masterly charm to the role of Indiana's estranged dad Henry Jones. Lucas and...