Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their litigation dragged on until the late '70s, when Warner Communications, which by then owned DC and wanted to make a movie version, paid off the creators with $20,000 a year for life. (Superman's estimated overall value: more than $1 billion.) Siegel and Shuster agreed to keep the peace, but they are giving no interviews and joining no celebrations. "They are just in such pain over this situation," says Thomas Andrae, a Berkeley sociologist who knows them, "particularly as it gets closer to the anniversary...
...selection process will consist of a five-minute test and a mock version of the Wheel of Fortune complete with a portable mini-wheel. Selsby stressed that it is not necessarily those who perform the best in the practice game, but those who are the most "personable," who will be chosen for the show...
Women, being denied access to membership, are discriminated against not only socially, but economically. The clubs keep alumni registers as an elite version of the Office of Career Services and they hold receptions at the homes of top corporate officials, enabling members to gain career connections. Because it is clear that women are being discriminated against, MCAD should find that it does have jurisdiction in the matter and should force the clubs to either open their doors to women or close down...
Success at home and attention from abroad made Takarabe wonder whether such a course would not succeed outside Japan. To help teach a U.S. version, he recruited two Americans. First, though, they had to pass the course themselves. Recalls Fred Delisle, 55, a retired U.S. Army colonel: "I told myself, 'Hell, I can't do this,' but pretty soon I was doing it." He and Classmate Dan Galitz, a former police training officer, finished ninth and seventh, respectively, in a class...
...Mickey Edwards (R-OK) said the keydifference between the two bills was that theDemocrats' version offered no guarantees for quickconsideration of a future administration requestfor military aid for the rebels...