Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, in the time of Sophocles the pan-Hellenic games that would later inspire the international Olympics and the primitive direct democracy that would later inspire the American political process were relatively undeveloped forms. Neither synchronized swimming nor the advanced telecommunications equipment necessary to broadcast it around the world had been invented during the Golden Age of Athens, for example. Nor did the ancient Greeks have the advantage of televised minidebates. They were a primitive and unhappy people indeed...
...between Turin, Milan and airplanes." Then the high-flying entrepreneur proceeded to explain why he wanted to do what many proud Belgians viewed as the unthinkable, to gain control of Societe Generale de Belgique, their country's largest and most pervasive company. His ambition: to assemble the first giant pan-European holding company that would prove big and diversified enough to compete head-on with American and Japanese rivals...
...Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall Street speculators were pouring money into the Beverly Hills-based firm, but it lost $20.5 million during the six months ending in August, thanks in part to such flops as Tai-Pan and King Kong Lives. To raise cash, the company is struggling to find buyers for its library of more than 350 movies and its 32-acre studio in North Carolina...
Whether that potential will pan out, however,is anybody's guess
Flynn said that all regular Pan Am flights within the United States, as well as flights to Bermuda, were booked solid, and that Pan Am was adding 10-12 additional flights to the Boston-to-New York Shuttle...