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...preferred shares. Kerkorian, the former owner of 50.1% of MGM/UA, and the cable operators will gain five seats on Turner Broadcasting's eleven-member board of directors. Managing a narrow escape, Turner was able to hold on to slightly more than 50% of the company that he built from scratch...
...construction worker. But after he lost his job just over a year ago, his wife kicked him out of the house. For a few weeks he lived on the couches of friends, but the friendships soon wore thin. Since then he has been on the street, starting from scratch and looking for a job. "I got to get my life back," George says after rinsing his face for the fourth time. He begins brushing his teeth with his forefinger. "If I don't stay clean," he mutters, "the world ain't even going to look me in the face...
...YEAR The last word on huevos rancheros has to be huevos Bridge Creek, served at a Berkeley restaurant for which the dish is named. Based on a paper-thin wheat tortilla with the required fried eggs, this elegant, succulent version has three sauces -- one fresh, made from scratch of Mexican tomatillos, another the classic tomato and onion salsa, and the third a chili-flavored pork carnitas -- all capped with a dome of melted Jack cheese. "It costs us $18 to make," says Chef-Owner John Hudspeth. Since $10.50 was the menu price, it is easy to see why Hudspeth dropped...
Word-processors allow a writer starting from scratch to produce an error-proof final copy without any intermediate print-outs or excessive use of liquid paper. This is one of their biggest drawbacks...
...their prose and arguments should retype major drafts from a print-out. What? Is the Happy Hacker denouncing the key virtue of a word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...