Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four months, Oprah Winfrey's faithful viewers watched as she shed some 70 lbs. as easily as a butterfly casts off its chrysalis. Her secret? Last week the talk-show empress revealed it was Optifast, a liquid-diet program from Minneapolis-based Sandoz Nutrition. In the hours after Winfrey's program, Sandoz fielded more than 200,000 phone inquiries about its crash-diet regimen...
MONET IN LONDON, High Museum, Atlanta. To mark the museum's fifth anniversary, a show of 23 atmospheric views of Waterloo and Charing Cross bridges and the Houses of Parliament, done by the impressionist between 1899 and 1904. Through...
...fanfare at last week's gathering of the P.L.O.'s parliament on the outskirts of Algiers, Arafat's new state came into existence in name only, a largely symbolic response by P.L.O. leaders who wanted to show some political results for the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Only hours earlier, Arafat had overcome the protests of Palestinian hard-liners and persuaded the council to reverse its long-standing rejection of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which - implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Needing a legal foundation for setting...
...that Bush appoint a troika consisting of Fuller, Sununu and campaign pollster Bob Teeter, who together would bring the necessary Washington experience, negotiating ability and personal clout to the job -- much like Reagan's first-term team of Baker, Michael Deaver and Ed Meese. But Bush was determined to show his independence. While some members of the transition team seemed thrilled to see the President-elect make a bold decision, others recalled that Bush was not always at his best on his own. Said a skeptical adviser: "There was a lot about this week that was reminiscent...
...factor that is pulling editors willy-nilly into the world of management is the decline of family-owned newspapers and the surge in the value of media companies on Wall Street. "It is no longer sufficient for most owners of newspapers to show a good return year in and year out," says Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly. "There must be increasingly higher returns because those profits are no longer just something that apply to that individual paper. They go to the parent firm, which is often paying off debt for mergers and expansions...