Word: pioneering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holmes a Court sold half his shares to U.S. Financier Carl Icahn in November for $360 million, at an estimated loss of $65 million. Other items: an 8% stake in the British retailer Sears PLC, sold for $300 million (loss: $41 million), and a 16% stake in Australia's Pioneer Concrete Services (loss: $54 million...
...that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early '80s, which led consumers to the misconception that the technology had gone bust. Pioneer Electronics, which manufactures virtually all the laser players sold in the U.S., soldiered on alone, going into the software business as well, but discs remained mostly the playthings of film fans and technofreaks until CDs revolutionized the audio market. "The triumph of the CD is giving the laser- disc industry...
...intelligent and penetrating. The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on public television has a clear, steady eye and the time to explore issues thoroughly, without the headlong rush against the clock that was, in part, Dan Rather's problem with George Bush. With Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. has done a pioneer's work in civilizing discussion on television. But the temptations of television -- spectacle, flash, the short attention span, the sensationalism of the irrational -- are hard to resist. At its worst, television journalism is a form of cartooning, and lately the cartoon style has become more popular...
...praised the nominee as a "brilliant pioneer" for writing an opinion that struck down the so-called legislative veto, which gave each house of Congress power by itself to override actions by executive agencies. The Supreme Court later upheld Kennedy's ruling in that case...
...Health began studying and defining the syndrome in the early 1980s; it received formal acceptance this spring, when it was included for the first time in the American Psychiatric Association's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). Says NIMH Research Psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal, a pioneer in SAD studies: "People who suffer from depression are less able to cope with stresses that knock them out of equilibrium; they can't roll with the punches. We have now expanded that idea from psychological stresses to the physical environment...