Word: roughnesses
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...wait! There on the tarmac stood the rumpled figure of Ralph Roberts, 74, and his natty son Brian, 35, who controlled the Comcast cable-TV company and were partners with Diller in QVC. Known as straight-arrow businessmen in a rough-and-tumble industry, the Robertses hated the merger with CBS and arrived at the airport with a letter that contained shattering news for Diller: to bust up the deal that had electrified Wall Street when it was announced last month, Comcast was offering $2.2 billion, or $44 a share, for the 84% of QVC stock that...
...they were based partly on a fear that the flow of refugees would become intolerable by then. In fact, it eased a bit last week -- on Wednesday the U.S. Coast Guard picked up only 178, the lowest number since June 20, though that might have been because of rough seas. There are even the beginnings of a backflow: some escapees who were caught and interned have despaired of ever getting to the American mainland and have chosen to return to Haiti rather than continue living indefinitely in jammed quarters at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...unprepossessing kid following a tremendously charismatic, long- tenured father, desperately trying to live up to him." In any case, as former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger noted, the changing of the guard "adds uncertainty at precisely the time we don't need it." Jong Il plainly will find some rough going in acquiring his father's stature. Noted Norman Levin, a senior analyst at Rand Corp. in California: "If Kim Il Sung said white is black, he could make it stick. No one now has that sort of authority...
...been a rough year for some acclaimed writer-directors. They spend all their ingenuity and a good deal of money putting a personal twist on an old genre -- Lawrence Kasdan with his Wyatt Earp western, James L. Brooks with the would-be musical I'll Do Anything, Barry Levinson with his behind- the-screen Jimmy Hollywood -- and what happens? A big nothing. The critics cluck; the public stays home in droves. One hates to see ambitious artists fail, even if their fizzles can be more provocative than the minor films that become major hits. But somehow these men became estranged...
...Daniels questioned whether that notion is still valid, "or have technical developments combined to...make this rough draft so rough that it's not trustworthy...