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Much of the news division's rancor had focused on Sauter, an 18-year CBS veteran who climbed from news division president to executive vice president of the Broadcast Group, but who also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Shoot-Out At Black Rock | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...week's end some of the early conference rancor had melted away. Said U.S. Delegation Leader Richard Kennedy, who had initially declared himself "disappointed" with the amount of Soviet information: "Our objectives have been met. We came to learn as much as we could. This does not mean we know everything. But the Soviet experts don't know everything either." While some understandings were reached during the five-day session, few if any minds were changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union We Are Still Not Satisfied | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...model shop, workers craft detailed miniatures of such objects as the spaceship from Cocoon and the De Lorean car that flew through time in Back to the Future. The creature shop is the birthplace for most of the monsters and other grotesques that populate Lucas' fantasyland, from the Rancor Pit monster in Return of the Jedi to the yet-to-beunveiled Howard the Duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lights! Camera! Special Effects! | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Nonetheless, there was no shortage of Sikh-related rancor. In the northern Indian state of Haryana, at least three Hindus were killed and 40 injured in violence sparked by Rajiv Gandhi's Sikh peace plan. Part of that program calls for redrawing the boundaries between Haryana and Punjab, where Sikhs form a majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India I Am Innocent | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inner Rot | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

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