Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the $37 million purchase price he paid Murdoch, who reportedly lost $150 million in the twelve years he owned the paper, Kalikow has already sunk $17 million into the Post. The Chicago-based Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, has spent more than $100 million reviving the paper since it nearly folded in 1982, while the Los Angeles-based Times-Mirror Co. has invested about the same amount in its attempt to create a New York paper by expanding Newsday from its profitable base on Long Island...
...think it has sunk in yet," Roy says. "I couldn't ask for anything better. I hope we can go all the way to the NCAA Championships...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...
...lies." The English-language Egyptian Gazette argued that the Ayatullah's pronouncements "will do more to damage the image of Islam in the West than any words of Mr. Rushdie." Concluded the paper: "Without the outcry, the book might have sold some tens of thousands of copies and then sunk into oblivion as being too obscure for the general interest...
Efforts to devise a coherent immigration policy are hampered by the political power of ethnic groups that have sunk deep roots in the U.S. Over the past seven years, some 100,000 Irish natives entered the U.S. on tourist visas, then stayed on after their allotted time expired. The Irish have complained that a 1965 immigration provision giving preference to family members of recent arrivals has helped Asians and Latinos while discriminating against West Europeans. Two years ago, Irish-American activists took their case to Congress and received an enthusiastic hearing. With the help of new legislation pushed by powerful...