Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third largest cable TV system. The $10.8 billion deal gives U.S. West access to nearly a third of cable homes in the U.S. The deal also may serve as a salve to U.S. West, a Time Warner shareholder that is suing to block Time Warner's proposed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Time Warner Chairman gave the deal his blessing in statement: "The strategies of U. S. West Media Group's Atlanta cable systems, those of Continental Cablevision and Time Warner Cable are virtually identical, thus creating the potential for further affiliating these well-positioned systems in the future," Time Warner...
...Paul Turner, Mann's coach of two years, has been supportive throughout, keeping Mann in "good spirits" during low times and "intense" during work time...
...Terrence has a positive spirit," Turner says. "He realizes last year he didn't accomplish what he wanted and now, as a senior, he wants to place at Heps...
...miles northeast of Austin, has just 13,300 people. But no place is too small for the drug trade. Five years ago, crack moved in among the cotton gins and railroad tracks, bringing with it assault, rape, car theft and murder. Crime got so bad that Mae Willie Turner, 79, and her sister, Gladys Hubbard, 73, could no longer sit at night on their front porch. "The place was infested," says Turner...
That's what they got. Most weeks Turner and Hubbard put on jackets with slogans such as UP WITH HOPE, DOWN WITH DOPE and joined other demonstrators on streets where the heaviest dealing happened. Stansbury got the town council to designate "downtown" Taylor as a historic district, which meant a ban on the public consumption of alcohol. The group even persuaded the Texas National Guard to bulldoze 48 worn-out buildings near the railroad tracks that had become weekend squats for drug dealers and their customers, who used to come in by car and train. Taylor these days is more...