Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fade in to a row of toilet stalls in a men's room. While disembodied voices talk about the day's business events, the camera pans across a row of feet with trousers and underwear scrunched down around them. Says the announcer: "There's a better place where executives can go for fast-breaking business news...
...waters could be treacherous. The channel space on cable systems is limited, and in most areas CNBC would have to supplant another service to win a spot on the dial. (FNN officials say their channel has been dropped by only a few systems to make room for CNBC.) In addition, the channel's programming, aimed at both hard-core market watchers and ordinary consumers, could be an uneasy mix. Then too there is Ted Turner to deal with. The CNN founder has already fired one loud volley at the competition, denouncing NBC executives as "bozos" and claiming that they started...
...cavernous Senate Caucus Room two years ago, a misty-eyed Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North dazzled millions of TV viewers. Imposing in his sharply creased uniform and Viet Nam combat ribbons, he confidently minimized his role in the Iran-contra scandal, insisting, "I was authorized to do everything that I did." Last week in a Washington federal courtroom, a more subdued North, now a blue-suited civilian with graying hair, took the witness stand and tried to convince twelve jurors that he had been merely a gofer, dutifully carrying out policy set higher in the White House. Surprisingly, the Government...
...issue. He tiptoed out of the Eastern Air Lines strike early and into the Alaskan oil spill belatedly. Twice in the past few days he has mentioned his admiration of the leadership style of Dwight Eisenhower, best known for his ability to reconcile contentious and talented people. "No room for grudges in this business," Bush told one meeting of young staff members...
...from lab to lab. Next, one of the best-known figures in the field, physicist Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, announced that he too had achieved fusion in a jar, although, significantly, with far lower energy output. Even a pair of Hungarian scientists claimed to have carried out room-temperature fusion...