Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murdoch and Kluge, already friends, exchanged pleasantries; before long, Kluge was sounding out Murdoch and Davis about selling them Metromedia's string of television stations. A discussion over dinner led the following day to serious talks, which eventually led to marathon meetings in Kluge's apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers. As the hard-driving Murdoch described the complex bargaining that followed, "You find things you don't expect, you shout, you scream...
...Murdoch's employees would pick to describe their boss. Industrious, yes. After graduating from Oxford in 1953, Murdoch worked as a subeditor on the London Daily Express in order to learn the newspaper trade. Ambitious, yes. Once he had revitalized his father's papers, he quickly bought a string of other Australian dailies, then eventually hopscotched to London in 1969, when he acquired the Sunday scandal sheet News of the World, and the U.S. in 1973, when he purchased both the San Antonio Express and News...
...comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...date but the form and scope of any world-trade negotiations. It is still possible that a conference involving the 90 nations belonging to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will be called; Mitterrand agreed that France would participate in planning for one, but laid down a string of conditions that France's partners would find difficult to meet. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stated U.S. eagerness to talk trade liberalization with any groups of nations, or even individual countries, that are willing to deal if a GATT conference could not be convened. But such piecemeal negotiations would...
...This string of incidents has stun-gun manufacturers on the defensive, though sales continue to soar. If the alleged police assailants had not had stun guns, "a traditional method--burning cigarettes or whatever--would have been used," argues James McCourt of Nova Technologies. Nova has sold more than 100,000 of its $85 XR-5000s in the past two years. The lightweight 6-in. shock stick is powered by a nine-volt rechargeable battery. When triggered while pressed against a person's body, it sends out 50,000 volts but, Nova claims, just .00006 of an amp, a tiny fraction...