Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sumner said to me, 'You've been stalking my company for a long time; come over and talk to me about CBS.'" Karmazin approached his talk with Redstone as if he were a prospective investor, highlighting CBS's strong network of affiliates and its prime radio stations and outdoor-advertising assets and reminding Redstone of talent such as Howard Stern, Don Imus and David Letterman...
...said Wednesday night that he still considered himself opposed to a united European currency. The current Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has favored Britain's further integration with the rest of Europe...
Major faced two tasks that occupied nearly the entirety of his seven-year tenure as Prime Minister...
...Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak prefers to do things himself ? and usually late at night. So does Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And so, although Barak sent his foreign mininster, David Levy, to start the historic "final status" peace talks with Palestinian negotiator Abu Mazen on Monday, he raised eyebrows in Israel Friday by holding a secret overnight meeting directly with Arafat to discuss some of those same final status issues. It's not unusual for leaders to intercede when talks between negotiators deadlock, but these talks had only just gotten started ? and Levy first heard of the meeting...
...Kremlin. Top Yeltsin aides have been stoking Russia?s rumor mill all week, hinting variously that their boss is considering declaring a state of emergency, planning to resign this weekend and call early presidential elections, or looking to simply rely on his familiar when-in-doubt-fire-the-prime-minister formula. Yeltsin aides are also warning that he?s facing another life-threatening health crisis and even ?- in the case of one bizarre story leaked from within the Kremlin ?- that the Russian president died last week. "There are no more illusions now," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "This...