Word: combo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...video-game industry is being propelled forward by a technological imperative that is reshaping most forms of entertainment. America's telemedia giants -- from AT&T and Time Warner to Tele-Communications Inc. and the proposed Paramount-Viacom combo -- are spending billions to turn today's passive television broadcast system into a two-way, interactive information highway capable of delivering not just movies, sitcoms and news on demand, but the world's greatest video games as well...
...Conan & Co. are preparing comedy bits with names like "Raw Liver," "The Hunt" and "Tweeter." Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen's old E-Street Band, is expected to lead the show's resident combo. O'Brien's wish list of guests includes Larry Bird, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Get Smart's Don Adams and biographer Robert Caro. But the star will be Conan, and the sizable shadow will be Dave's. "He did ; something innovative in the 12:30 time slot," O'Brien says. "And I'm inheriting this legacy. So I feel a responsibility both...
...YORK -- Some of the top stars in music have indulged in a guilty rock pleasure. Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Lenny Kravitz and the speed-metal band Megadeth, among other unlikely devotees, have recorded cover versions of songs by the band KISS, perhaps the schlockiest combo in rock history, for a tribute album that is due to be released early next year...
Operating alone, each of the three drugs -- AZT, ddI and pyridinone -- merely slows down the virus' ability to reproduce. Eventually, the microbe mutates and becomes resistant to treatment. Chow's triple combo, however, appears to overwhelm HIV's ability to develop into new strains. More than a month after the scientists stopped treatment of their laboratory cultures, they could find no virus...
...deal is the latest in a flurry of international partnerships being formed as the world's airlines shoot it out for passengers. By far the most controversial is USAir's plan to sell a 44% stake to British Airways for $750 million. The transatlantic combo would rank as one of the three biggest airlines in the world, linking 339 destinations in 71 countries. Most alarming to U.S. carriers, the arrangement would give British Airways, one of the world's strongest carriers, unlimited access to American markets. President- elect Bill Clinton and Ross Perot joined the chorus of alarm during...