Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absence of his mother, however, all camera lenses will inevitably turn toward the photogenic William. In July the tabloid Sun could not resist revealing William and Harry's plot to throw a surprise party for their father's 50th birthday, complete with a skit written by Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry along with the young princes. (The party, the first of many events leading up to Charles' Nov. 14 birthday, nevertheless came off July 31, attended by some 100 guests, including Camilla...
Traditional TV networks have not made a lot of economic sense for years: most of the money generated has a way of going elsewhere. According to Broadcasting & Cable magazine, NBC was the only network among the Big Four to turn a sizable profit last year--$475 million, on revenues of $3.8 billion. CBS lost money; Fox did too after discounting special accounting benefits; ABC turned a small profit. This year they'll do worse...
...industry got these opportunities to open up to a larger audience partly because young adults grew up with VCRs, cable TV and the Internet and thus have been exposed to more adult material. And the AIDS epidemic has prompted a turn to voyeurism as a prudent alternative to sex. But an equally big factor, say the porn manufacturers, is that since Bill Clinton took office, the Justice Department hasn't prosecuted any new interstate transportation of obscenity cases...
...sitting in the dark with the new Queen of Hip-Hop. You're in a windowed alcove just off the living room. Hill doesn't want to turn on the lights; she says she "doesn't want to spoil the mood." You can hear her one-year-old son Zion gurgling and making baby yelps in a nearby room. When you came in, you could see Hill's tummy bulge under her blue overalls--the 23-year-old mom has another baby due in October. Now you can't see anything. You can just hear her voice. Motherhood...
...anyone sitting on a stock that got hammered as the market fell this summer: your bright little idea may get pounded even more this fall as fellow shareholders sell to lock in tax advantages by year's end. Tough out there, huh? By acting now, though, you can turn the expected "tax-loss selling" into an opportunity. There are some extra risks and costs, but they don't amount to much if you have losers that you expect to sell anyway. The basic strategy is to dump your dogs now, so that when the crowd starts doing it in November...