Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once the news spread, so did a lot of other people. When the acquisition is complete, Time Warner will regain its rank as the world's largest media company, ahead of the newly combined Walt Disney and Capital Cities/ABC. "This is far and away the dream deal," boasts Levin, who called the merger with Turner "a sublime combination." The deal brings together a vast collection of brand names in Time Warner's movie, music and publishing divisions (including TIME magazine) and Turner's cable and TV news operations...
...prices for Apple's computers were high compared with the more competitive IBM-clone market, and the Mac found itself increasingly limited to the niches it now tenuously occupies: schools and desktop publishing. The rank-and-file computer buyer was less interested in exquisite engineering than in sticker price. Apple's share has dropped from about 15% of the personal computer market...
...student, Steinberg has good reason to support Specter, whose pledges to balance the budget and begin to pay off the national debt rank at the top of his agenda. The accumulating burden of debt service is destroying our nation's ability to spend productively. Red ink is the red menace of our time; in Specter we have a man willing to eliminate...
...certainly makes the FBI look very bad to the public," reports Elaine Shannon from the hearings. "That four top officials all are going to take the Fifth gives the impression of a stonewall, and that doesn't help the bureau at all. Morale is extremely low among the rank and file. And for the FBI, morale is everything...
...mother was the eldest of her generation--of nine children--and came from a slightly more elevated social station in Jamaica. She had a high school education, which my father lacked. ("Him who never finished high school," she would mutter when Pop pulled rank on family matters.) Before emigrating, Mom had worked as a stenographer in a lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph...