Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bought by the Times Mirror Co. in 1970, the Times Herald had by 1980 almost overtaken the Morning News in ads and circulation. But then the paper ran into management troubles. It dipped into the red during the first quarter of this year, while the tightly run News jumped to a formidable circulation lead (390,275 vs. 244,629). The News's owner, A.H. Belo Corp., could rightly claim victory, but perhaps the biggest winner was MediaNews President and CEO William Dean Singleton, 34. As an 18-year-old, Singleton had been turned down for a job by the Times...
...strong babies, with sturdy legs," says Ashford. "It would be nice to see them both running." Till then, the mothers will take care of that. Ashford, competing at Eugene in her fifth sprint since returning to the track last February, finished third and posted her best postpartum time. Slaney ran a mile a few days after Ashley's birth, and "expects to be back in shape in a couple of months." Set your stopwatches, and not just to time the baby formula...
...second act, however, Victoria (now played by Loranger) proves to be the pivotal character rather than Clive. Whereas the man who ran the household in Victorian times controlled the sexual manueverings and perferences of those in his household, the daughter/emerging liberated woman oversees...
...with illegally misleading the public in purporting to summarize the results of a ten-year, $115 million U.S. Government-funded research study on the relationship between smoking and heart disease, among other things. Reynolds described the project, known as the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, in an advertisement that ran in various publications from February through June 1985. The company's conclusion: "The controversy over smoking and health remains an open...
...discovery that the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement . . . The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure." Kitsch is amusing, not threatening. An ironic acceptance of pop effluvia, Sontag wrote, "makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated." Sontag's hip intellectuals did not like cheap science-fiction movies or Fabian: they "liked" them...