Word: rumored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last summer, rumor had spread among capital media lawyers that the FCC was about to resolve the dispute in a way that would allow Fox to continue operating unimpeded. In the meantime, however, Murdoch, a deal junkie who thrives on unsettling the competition, had launched a revolution in the landscape of television. And he had made an energetic enemy-nbc. "What this is all about is: Murdoch plays by Murdoch's rules," says a former FCC official, "and he just blew NBC's mind...
...outset of the novel, Bennett is hired by Leominster College, ostensibly to teach physics but also to try to ferret out the insights of the genius physicist Scalopino, who has published nothing and yet, according to rumor, keeps scores of brilliant results in files full of near undecipherable notes...
...001st new job he had created, before Chicagoans began climbing atop one another's big shoulders to tear the No. 23 jersey down from the rafters of the United Center, it was a Chicago White Sox minor- league outfielder named Charles Poe who confirmed the rumor. When Jordan walked out of the White Sox camp in Sarasota, Florida, on March 2, he told Poe and a few of his minor-league buddies that he was leaving for good. "We really thought he was playing around," Poe told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But then he talked...
...rumor mill began humming after Michael Jordan showed up for three straight practice sessions with his old team the Chicago Bulls. "I have decided to end my baseball career," Jordan said. All sorts of speculation were rife, and late Saturday word spread that Jordan would rejoin the Bulls for their March 24 game against the Orlando Magic and Shaquille O'Neal, the N.B.A.'s current megastar...
...only been in University Hall for a few minutes, when a rumor started to fly around the first floor with lightning speed. Barbra Streisand was going to be there, "to chat it up with [Dean of the Faculty] Jeremy [Knowles]" before her IOP speech the next...