Word: secret
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...before the House Un-American Activities Committee; one of its members was Nixon, an ambitious young California Republican. Chambers, a portly, rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a communist courier but broke with the party in 1938. He told the committee that among the members of a secret communist cell in Washington during the '30s was Hiss...
Texaco's shareholders, though, deserve to share the blame with corporate managers for the poisonous atmosphere at the company. Even before the appalling transcripts surfaced, Texaco's history of discrimination was not exactly a secret. The company has forked out millions in legal fees to defend itself in a series of well-publicized cases brought by minorities and women. In 1991, for example, a California jury awarded $17.6 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Janella Sue Martin, who sued after Texaco denied her a promotion and gave the job to a man. The trial judge set aside the verdict...
MICHAEL JACKSON, clearly no admirer of long engagements, got married abruptly for the second time in three years. The latest wedding took place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson's baby, wore white; the wedding was attended by the groom's entourage and staff, according to Jackson's publicist. It is also the second marriage for the new missus, about whom little is known except that she's a nurse for Jackson's dermatologist and that someone has offered topless photos of her to the tabloids...
Indeed, part of the networks' strategy to lure back Saturday-morning viewers focuses on copying a big secret of Nickelodeon's success: promotion, promotion, promotion. Fox, for example, has tripled the marketing and promotion budget, in part to advertise its kids' fare on cable and radio stations. ABC is now using its prime-time Friday-night block, which includes youth-oriented series like Clueless, to aggressively promote shows airing the next morning...
Well, not exactly. Nick isn't leaping ahead with the sort of innovative live-action fare it serves up in the evenings (The Secret World of Alex Mack) but rather with repeats of its weekday cartoons like the clever Rugrats, as well as reruns of older Saturday-morning shows that were canceled by the major networks years ago. "When Nickelodeon is able to beat broadcast networks with repeats of Muppet Babies and Beetlejuice," notes Jamie Kellner. head of the WB, "it suggests the matter goes far beyond programming...