Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth is a hurricane/I'm bored, I use Novocain.../Hum along and regret it." After a string of mediocre opening acts, one featuring a miffed Charles-in-Charge playing loungey guitar rip-offs, the wild-eyed sincerity of The Sheila Divine was as invigorating as a blast of pure oxygen...
...then there's the impending arrival of Oxygen, an all-new cable channel set to debut on Jan. 1, 2000, which will target women and children exclusively. Launched by former Nickelodeon president Geraldine Laybourne, it will rely heavily for its programming on producer Marcy Carsey, the force behind such hit shows as Roseanne and 3rd Rock from the Sun. "There is no diversity on network TV right now," says Carsey. "All the women are young and beautiful and work in the media. They don't seem to have any real problems." Except, of course, for the women...
...that same reason we've just teamed up with our longtime partner, Caryn Mandabach, as well as Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey, in a venture called Oxygen, in which we will fuse a new cable channel with an Internet base to program for women...
When the Dow peaked at 985 in 1968, the conglomerate movement comprised dozens of America's largest companies, including Textron, Litton, Teledyne, Raytheon, Walter Kidde & Co. and US Industries. The movement would sputter to a halt in the '70s, its oxygen cut off by rising interest rates and a falling market. A surprisingly anticonglomerate Nixon Administration crimped the most aggressive expansions in the interest of protecting what Ling calls "the smokestack-industry crowd" of old-line executives. Ling was forced out of LTV in 1970 as part of an antitrust settlement. Bluhdorn died on a company jet in 1983. Geneen...
...LORD HUNT, 88, old-school British soldier and explorer, and the brains behind the first trek to the summit of Mount Everest; in Henley, England. Then known as Colonel John Hunt, he engineered the historic ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. Hunt's oxygen bottle froze on the way up, and he never reached the peak...