Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multiplex. Something of a late bloomer, Redstone didn't hit the big time until 1987, when at age 64 he put virtually all the assets of his company at risk in a bidding war that won Viacom, then a cable company, for $3.4 billion. Ironically, Viacom had been split off from CBS 16 years earlier as a syndicator of TV shows and movies...
...Last season the league was split pretty much down the middle in terms of turf fields and grass fields," Kalil said. "This year, though, Yale is the only team left with grass, so things should be much more competitive...
Second, Major faced what he called the "intractable" problem: his party was split in two by the thorny issue of a greater Europe...
...pill amendments designed by GOP bigwigs to erode its support ? and picking up one, courtesy of upstate New York Republican John Sweeney, that would make Hillary reimburse us for riding Air Force One to campaign stops ? the bill sailed through by a 252-to-177 vote. Fifty-four Republicans split from their party to back the bill, only 13 Democrats opposed it, and reform?s proponents broke out the figurative champagne, toasting the day when politics ? and politicians ? are no longer for sale to the highest bidder...
Even branding is tame compared with more extreme bod-mod, ranging from people who have their tongues split to some Star Trek fanatics who have supposedly tried to look like a Klingon. Then there's Erik Sprague, 27, of Albany, N.Y., who has spent the past several years trying to turn himself into a lizard. So far he has had Teflon implants to enlarge his forehead and filed his teeth into fangs, while covering his body with tattoos of reptilian scales...