Word: thunderbolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been paying. News Corp. wrote off some $350 million after the swipe, but the strategy helped the Fox Network reach parity with the Big Three...
Hogue takes this passage as follows: "The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt, the evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition: according to the prediction another falls at night time, conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany...
EAGLE, Colorado: DNA tests have confirmed that Captain Craig Button was in his A-10 Thunderbolt when it crashed in the Colorado Rockies. Wreckage of the plane and fragments of body parts were found Friday in the rugged mountains south of I-70, ending a three-week search. National Guardsmen will continue looking for the four 500-pound bombs the plane was carrying. But officials say that deep snow may have erased so many clues that they may never know why Button's plane left formation to fly 800 miles off course before crashing...
...rules type of guy." He seemed to be the last person anyone would have expected to break formation while flying a routine training mission with two other planes, and an unlikely person simply to vanish into the wild blue yonder with an $8.8 million, bomb-laden A-10 Thunderbolt...
...Romans had a god of central banking, he might look like Hans Tietmeyer. Tall, square-jawed, with white hair that often looks a bit windblown, and above all stern, the president of Germany's fiercely independent Bundesbank always seems ready to hurl down a thunderbolt against any sign of inflation. In fact, his role is nearly that Olympian. Europe's most powerful central banker, Tietmeyer has far more influence than any other individual over the Continent's interest rates, exchange rates and the course of its struggling economic rebound. This year he will be a pivotal figure in determining...