Word: ran
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Since Davis ran out on a full house in Oakland in 1982 and made it stick after two trials against the league, the city has been trying to condemn the team-everyone condemns this team-and take over under the laws of eminent domain. Meanwhile the Raiders are in Los Angeles and starting to count over 90,000 patrons in the Coliseum, where Davis has not yet signed a long-term lease. For now, damages of some $35 million are owed the Raiders by the other 27 teams. Speaking for his players and himself, he says...
...blurring the distinction between competing car lines, GM was violating a cardinal rule of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the management genius who rescued the company from near bankruptcy in the early 1920s and ran it until 1956. In 1921, Sloan recommended that GM rationalize its products by manufacturing "a line of cars in each price area, from the lowest price up to one for a strictly high-grade quantity production car." After eliminating moribund models like the Scripps-Booth, and phasing out another, the Oakland, Sloan created the five-division lineup that has survived for nearly 60 years...
...incident that may have soured Parker's prospects was the handling of diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. Last April Newsweek and other organizations bargained unsuccessfully for U.S. publication rights from the West German photo weekly Stern. Under Parker's supervision, Newsweek then ran an all but breathless cover story, synopsizing the memoirs, which included the memorable lines "Hitler's diaries-genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end." After they had been exposed as forgeries, Newsweek ran a second cover suggesting that it had played a major role in uncovering the fraud...
This has less to do with running time than with economy of narrative. When the eye, mind and heart are engaged by artful storytellers, questions of duration become irrelevant. One enduring Hollywood epic, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, ran for more than 2½ hours in 1915, when the most popular movies were Charlie Chaplin's two-reel comedies. Another Civil War melodrama, the 1939 Gone With the Wind, clocked in at 222 minutes. Yet both films tell their tales faster than Star Wars and with twice the sweep...
...William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife his own death announcement, which ran in the Times of London. It said, "John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on Nov. 15. He sadly misses family and friends...