Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: While both Microsoft and CBS heatedly denied a newspaper report that Bill Gates is trying to buy the $14 billion network, the buzz continues. Although Westinghouse said the network is not for sale, impatient Westinghouse shareholders may be sick of the underperforming network. If CBS does go on sale, Gates may have some competition on his hands. Seagram, owner of Universal Studios, recently dumped a large chunk of Time Warner and has reportedly expressed interest in CBS. In a classic non denial-denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership...
...punishment money is the least important part of the package. It cannot resurrect all those millions of dead smokers or cure those now terminally afflicted. Besides, current high cigarette excise taxes already cover much of the states' public-health outlay to care for sick smokers. The settlement price is really meant to put a dent in the American tobacco industry's bottom line. But by gradually jacking up the retail price of the 24 billion packs they sell in the U.S. annually and saving much of their present multibillion-dollar-a-year advertising, promotion and merchandising budget (thanks to restrictions...
...sick of Harvard Square becoming a mall," said one customer in Buck-A-Book who declined to give her name...
...explained, and there was no guarantee of success. The treatment he offered--an intense chemical barrage with the same combination of powerful anti-HIV drugs that has given so many patients with advanced AIDS a new lease on life--would last six weeks and make the man very sick. But if it worked, the potent cocktail could destroy any viral particles that might have been transmitted and prevent a potentially fatal infection from taking hold...
...screens across the continent, dinosaurs devour doggies, serial killers hijack planes, cruise ships come thisclose to exploding. And a week before the solstice, a few moviegoers are already sick of summer. There's got to be something better than this: brain food, not eye candy. Perhaps some ambition, boldness, a little variety for our palette. To the rescue comes a quartet of foreign-language films--remember them?--in French and Farsi, Mandarin and Japanese. These movies will be in only a few dozen U.S. theaters. But seeing them could convince you that summer really is a season of fullness...