Word: atlanticism
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BUSINESS Betting on the 21st Century In a merger with potentially historic implications for the communications and entertainment industries, Bell Atlantic Corp. announced it would acquire Tele- Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable-TV operator, and its cable- programming affiliate, Liberty Media. The resulting company could dominate the ''information...
Ray Smith, chairman of Bell Atlantic and the force behind the company's historic purchase of TCI, has probably compiled a ''theatrical resume.'' Productions not shown include The Most Eminent Saga (director and playwright) and Marat/Sade (director).
The irony is that Lula might have a point. Players who play for Brazil's cash-strapped and poorly run pro clubs probably do want to play for their country more than those in the foreign legion. The European-based players have to shlep themselves all the way across the...
Exhausted when I got home, I fell asleep early. It was July 17. "There's been another crash. It doesn't look good," I heard my husband say through my fog of sleep. "It crashed into the ocean." I got up and followed him to the television. TWA Flight 800...
More than a year later, in the days after TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, the public, politicians, investigators and grieving family members waited tensely while scuba divers searched for clues. Eventually the recorder was found, its body remarkably undamaged. But it played back only a millisecond of...