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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some points, the study was leaked to theWashington Post, which ran an article about it.Orfield and Eaton both charged that someone inMaryland released the report; Brain J. Porter, aspokesperson for the district, said yesterday thatsomeone in Cambridge...
...Italian immigrants, Panetta grew up in Monterey, California, where his parents owned and ran a small cafe that served Calabrian fare to Army troops at Fort Ord. Panetta attended the University of Santa Clara for his undergraduate and law degrees and afterward joined the Army, serving in the intelligence branch. He came to Washington in 1966 as an aide to a Republican Senator and, after the 1968 election, became Richard Nixon's chief civil rights officer at the old Health, Education and Welfare Department. When Panetta aggressively sought to coerce Southern school districts into complying with court-ordered busing plans...
...group of other Young Turks grew impatient with the speaker's stewardship of the chamber. Though he fell out of favor with O'Neill, Panetta fought back, eventually taking control of the House Budget Committee in 1989. One longtime Panetta advantage has been his wife Sylvia, who ran his district office in California as an unpaid aide while raising three boys...
Around? Diller is never just around. And he is always onto something -- usually on top. In the '70s he successfully ran Paramount's empire of movies. In the '80s, at Fox, he achieved the 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...
...mandate to create a fourth prime-time network. That he did, with his patented management style: creative listening. "What Barry does," says Garth Ancier, Fox's TV programming chief under Diller, "is assemble teams of people and then bring them into the room to debate different ideas. He obviously ran the whole thing, but he really acts as an editor. And he's a very good editor...