Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Riordan has never met Ross Perot. His New York-edged voice sounds nothing like a Texas drawl. And where he resides, among the mansions of Brentwood, they think "clean out the barn" must be a line from a Beverly Hillbillies rerun. Still, when a deft Los Angeles Times cartoonist drew him with jug ears and labeled him "H. Ross Riordan," the subject of the caricature recalls with a smile, he was not only amused but flattered: "I felt I'd arrived...
...regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed ABC, CBS and NBC to produce and own television programs and retain their lucrative rerun rights as well. In erasing industry barriers, the ruling could eventually lead to mergers between studios and TV networks...
...join him in the screening room for a movie, but in the interest of sleeping and getting packed for the road show that was to start in the morning, he declined. Not so Hillary. Well after midnight, the President grabbed her, and they headed off to watch a rerun on C-Span of the hours-old hit everyone in the country was talking about...
...chunk of their ally Czechoslovakia made the city's name synonymous with a cowardly sellout to aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going to be allowed to retain the land they have grabbed" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conference will consider tightening sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs' patrons in Belgrade...
Hawking can also be wrong. In 1985, for example, he brashly proclaimed that when and if the universe stopped expanding and began to contract, time would reverse and everything that had ever happened would be rerun in reverse. Eighteen months later, he sheepishly admitted his mistake. Earlier, after trashing another scientist's notion that the 19th century theory of thermodynamics could be applied to black-hole theory, he recanted and began applying it himself...