Word: fell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unsuccessfully to boost the network's sagging ratings, CBS Entertainment president Kim LeMasters resigned. His departure was not unexpected, but CBS's delay in naming a successor was. For a time the network dickered with Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne, but negotiations fell through. Finally, late last week, the network completed a deal with Jeff Sagansky, 37, a former NBC program executive who heads Tri-Star Pictures, which produced this fall's hit movie Look Who's Talking...
...revolutions of 1848 failed. The leaders of the uprisings fell out among themselves, and the forces of conservatism managed to regain control. Autocrats in Austria and Prussia revoked constitutions they had granted under popular pressure, and Bonaparte's flamboyant nephew, Louis Napoleon, became dictator of France...
...could a firm long heralded for its go-go brilliance stumble so badly? Somehow the company that transformed the advertising industry worldwide during the 1980s seems to have lost its alchemist's touch. Deepening the management mystery, Saatchi & Saatchi profits fell while its global advertising business continued to thrive: the company's revenues reached $1.5 billion this year, up from $1.35 billion...
...season has proven how talented the Crimson is. The November match against Navy was a no-contest, with Harvard winning, 9-0. The wrath of the deep and strong had no mercy on Franklin & Marshall, which fell, 9-0. Proving that the nine lives of the squash team were just as merciless on the road, the team went on to shut out Trinity with no problem. It was only at Cornell that the Crimson caught a glimpse of mortality. Although Harvard won the match, it lost only two games...
After more than two troubled years as the Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21 months a Government takeover of high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts...