Word: ten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kovach resignation and the changes in The Delta Democrat-Times are just two examples of a rapidly worsening trend. One merger and acquisitions specialist who concentrates on the media has estimated that within ten years, only six corporations will own all of the American media. Newspapers, magazines and broadcasters are supposed to keep an eye on the powers-that-be; instead, big business is making the media wear corporate blinders...
...would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where oil was ten years ago. There will be seven to ten great global communications corporations. My ambition is to be one of them. You can't have a world communications enterprise without the U.S., which has 80% of the software and half the scientific information." So exactly how will Macmillan be integrated into his operations...
Trapped inside this billionaire publishing baron are a multitude of people: a peasant haggler, stage director, domineering patriarch, sophisticated currency trader, military commander, politician, Hollywood mogul and unabashed publicity man. Following his train of thought is like listening to ten tape recorders, constantly switching on and off, constantly interrupting one another...
...Mikhail Gorbachev has learned since coming to power in 1985, the "unbreakable union" has a few cracks. The 285 million Soviet people form a patchwork of at least 100 ethnic groups in 15 national republics, 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. Only about 140 million are ethnic Russians -- and a growing number of the remainder are restless...
...nose are sharper, perhaps giving it greater maneuverability. More important, as demonstrated last week, it is set % up for fully automated flight. Onboard computers can guide it through re- entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing. The ship is also capable of manned flight, carrying up to ten people, but the Soviets plan at least one more unmanned shot before putting a crew on board. "Just as we were scared to death by Chernobyl," explains a Western diplomat in Moscow, "they were scared to death when Challenger blew...