Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with mustard, ketchup and flour. They have to mockingly propose to some of the geeky senior men and suck on pacifiers while they're being tortured. With lines like "fry like bacon you freshman piggies," "since you little prick-teases can't follow instructions..." and the command of "AIR RAID!!!!!" the film's hilarity will become a part of your everyday conversation. I guess that's the biggest compliment to a film, if you remember it well enough to repeat it's lines later...
...impossible: launching a fourth network and making it flower. In 1992 he became a partner in the home-shopping channel QVC, a roadside fruit stand on the new information superhighway. Instead of instantly upgrading the network's programming, Diller used QVC as a piggy bank for the hostile raid on Paramount. For once, he was vanquished, by Viacom Inc., and when the battle was over Diller issued this statement, as prophetic as it was sardonic: "They won. We lost. Next...
...stock value that had been cut sharply after the Paramount sortie. And it brought Tisch's company almost back to its May level, before CBS got a black eye by losing eight of its affiliate stations to Fox. CBS had also suffered wounds from an earlier affiliate raid by Rupert Murdoch, owner of the News Corp. (which includes the Fox network), and Revlon magnate Ronald Perelman. "CBS had to do something to break out of the doldrums," says Christopher Dixon, media analyst with PaineWebber. "With this move they enter the modern age -- albeit laughing, kicking, struggling and crying. They...
Israeli fighter jets and helicopter gunships attacked a training camp for Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon in a raid that killed nearly four dozen people -- most of them teenage recruits. Israel justified the raid as self-defense, saying that the victims were soon to join Hizballah's fight against Israel in south Lebanon. The guerrillas retaliated by firing two dozen rockets into northern Israel, which caused no casualties...
Such details as an air-raid siren on the top ofWidener Library showed the College's all-outeffort at war mobilization...