Word: tele
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Certainly his campaign's financial health is improving. As chairman of a powerful committee, he has been able to collect political-action committee money almost at will. After he became chairman, he arranged fund raisers for himself, at which Tele-Communications Inc., the Motion Picture Association of America, News Corporation and Time Warner, among others, were hosts. Sheila Krumholz, a research associate with the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, says she expects Pressler to at least double the $145,367 in pac contributions he received from the communications industry during his campaign in 1990. "This is the biggest bill...
Gates has invested in a variety of speculative alliances: with Hollywood's DreamWorks troika (Spielberg, Katzenberg, Geffen) to make interactive entertainment products; with cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., to build interactive TV systems; with cellular-telephone pioneer Craig McCaw's Teledesic Corp., to build a network of low-flying telecommunications satellites...
...cloudier. Synergy is the business world's most over-hyped concept, and the Internet is a market where just about everyone is betting but almost no one is yet taking home winnings. A similar deal two years ago, in which Bell Atlantic proposed to absorb the cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was called off before it could go forward. While MCI has a strong customer base among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence on the Internet...
...which does not even meet the scrupulous journalistic standards set by "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair." This video features spurious, bizarre tales about the President and finds him guilty of not only rampant philandery but drug trafficking and murder as well. In perhaps the most ironic development in tele-evangelistic history, Jerry Falwell used his "Old Time Gospel Hour" TV program as a forum to market "The Clinton Chronicles...
...feel like throwing up. This self-indulgent pseudo-intellectual reading from her tele-prompter (you didn't think those were her thoughts did you?) makes you sick. Good luck on funding for that Endowment for the Arts--if it makes such a difference, why doesn't Barbra and the rest of the mega-bucks stars simply support it themselves...