Word: untilized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many another entrepreneur, Bond had never given much thought to art until he got rich. "This Pie-casso, now," he asked an Australian museum man over dinner in Sydney in the early 1980s, "is he worth having?" But a major impressionist collection was what Bond hankered after. He knew...
But in 1986 Bond asked Chemical if he could pay up the lease early, settle the difference between the lease payments and the original $3.96 million and take ownership of the Manet. All seemed well until an American adviser in 1987 pointed out to Chemical that by law the Manet...
What's going on here? In almost any other industry, CNN's coups would be viewed as nothing short of piracy. But television is a business built on tenuous alliances. While the three major broadcast networks -- ABC, CBS and NBC -- have long been the dominant U.S. television programmers, they own...
Until now, the broadcast networks had not viewed the CNN partnerships as much of a threat, since most of the stories involved never ran on the networks anyway. Those days are gone. When NBC News delayed switching to live coverage the night of the California earthquake, for example, CNN effectively...
What adds a quaint, almost innocent flavor to this bygone controversy is the outmoded notion that department stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to unveil Santa's workshop. Now, of course, four-year-olds are still gorging on Halloween candy when the Saturday-morning ads begin their incessant...