Word: peters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current agenda -- not on East Berlin's nor on Bonn's. Certainly not reunification as old-fashioned nationalists still imagine it: a kind of anschluss of the G.D.R. by West Germany. "We did not throw off the Soviets to become a colony of the West," says Peter Grimm, a dissident writer...
...conference's trouble began after the sponsoring Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers refused to allow a speech by militant Peter Larkin of England, one of several AIDS sufferers who were invited by the Vatican. Frustrated by the council's tight control of the agenda, some 50 dissidents accused it of hindering open discussions, then set up their own lunch-hour conference. On the sidelines, some medical professionals defended the use of condoms; others accused the church of homophobia. John White, a priest who contracted the virus while in Kenya and now runs an AIDS treatment center...
There's no business like show business, even when it comes to off-screen commercial disputes. In a settlement that left Hollywood somewhat breathless last week, Warner Bros. and Sony Corp. ended their two-month battle over the services of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, the megahit producers of Batman and Rain Man. Warner agreed to release Guber, 47, and Peters, 44, from a five-year contract, thereby permitting Sony to hire the pair to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment, which the Japanese firm is acquiring for $3.4 billion. In return, Sony ceded entertainment assets to Warner Bros. that analysts estimated...
...stories." He arrived at the White House carrying a bag of Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies, Nancy Reagan's favorite. When he met her at the Reagan ranch, where she is known to favor jeans, he showed up in jeans. "Bill's like a great character actor," says Peter Osnos, his editor at Random House. "His self-effacing quality allows his subjects their own expression. An extraordinary quality of intimacy with the person is conveyed...
...based cable network airs stories provided by its partners via satellite, and distributes the stories to other station partners for their use. Broadcasters believe local viewers who catch their news teams on cable may be more likely to tune in the station if they like what they see. Says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who directs the Benton Broadcast Fellowships at the University of Chicago: "All of these factors are pulling apart the traditional relationship between the networks and their affiliates...