Word: ruin
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...joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...
This reviewer won't ruin what little suspense there is in this movie by revealing whether Kirstie is taken hostage by the kidnapper, and whether this enrages her boyfriend Tom Berenger and causes him to join Poitier in tracking down the criminal, and whether the fugitive makes it over the border to Canada, and whether it turns out to really make any difference when he does, but suffice it to say that every plot twist is strikingly implausible and obviously invented only to justify the next improbable twist...
Yesterday's Harvard-Boston College Beanpot consolation game provided a particularly egregious example of the way television can ruin a decent sporting event. Harvard lost, 4-2, to Boston College and neither team played particularly well. The stands were almost empty, save those few who trickled in early for the championship game between Boston University and Northeastern...
...coaching in his last Princeton-Harvardmatch, Barnaby said he was hoping for "an act ofGod" to beat the Tigers. The heavily-favoredPrinceton squad was looking to ruin Barnaby's lastcoaching match against Princeton. The Tigers hadbeaten all of their opponents by 9-0 scores...
...Sony, which acquired CBS Records two weeks ago, will put Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and all the other CBS stars on DAT. Sony is in an awkward position because CBS record executives have been leaders in the music industry's fight against DAT. They fear that home taping will ruin their lucrative CD business. As a modest concession to the recording industry's concerns, several DAT manufacturers are considering a special electronic system called Solo in their machines. Consumers will be able to make a digital tape of a compact disc but will not be able to duplicate that tape...