Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...river can be about connection one minute, blessed aloneness the next. He marches onto a floating dock and we follow, threatening to swamp the old planks. Ernestine panics: "Bill! I'll go with you! If we drown, we drown together!" To avert disaster, Bradley's people tell the media to go out in mini packs. An aide complains, "It's just a bunch of pencils"--reporters, not the cameras they want. This is, after all, about pretty pictures...
...publicly traded company, your responsibility is to shareholders, employees, advertisers. It didn't matter if I was going to enjoy this deal or not. We didn't need this deal. CBS was a great company with terrific cash flow without Viacom." And Viacom, as company CEO Sumner Redstone will tell you, was doing just fine on its own, with $12.1 billion in 1998 revenue. The spry Redstone, 76, might also point out to you--and you too, Mel--that he will still hold the top job and isn't planning on going anywhere soon...
...really hard to tell who's going to make the biggest impact on the program from this year's freshman class," Wheaton said. "They're all very talented players...
...think the humiliation suffered by the newly elected President Clinton over his attempt to convert the military?s gay-unfriendly stance would have Democratic presidential hopefuls running for cover. But don?t tell that to Bill Bradley ? the former senator is courting the increasingly powerful gay and lesbian vote by drawing a very firm line in the sand. In the upcoming issue of the Advocate, Bradley tells the gay and lesbian magazine that he believes the armed forces should accept the presence of openly gay soldiers. In an interview in a previous Advocate, Bradley's archrival, Al Gore, declared only...
...fruit," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley. Gore watched Clinton?s gay-rights campaign rhetoric capture the gay vote in 1992, and then saw the President?s inclusive military initiative drowned by the protests from the Pentagon and Congress, resulting in the wishy-washy "don't ask, don't tell." It?s also unclear whether President Gore or President Bradley would have the clout to get homosexual-rights laws passed. "Both men would have to prove themselves as bipartisan leaders who are able to change people's minds," he says. "Neither Gore nor Bradley commands a great deal of personal...