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...night "Family" went on the air in January 1971, a nervous CBS posted extra operators on its switchboards to handle the calls of protest. An outvoted censor prepared to say "I told you so," and several programming executives felt premonitions of the guillotine tingling at the backs of their necks. The network did not know whether the show would be a scandal or a flop. It was neither, of course, but instead a piece of instant American folklore...
...Speedo swimwear division in 1990 and took it public two years later as Authentic Fitness, only to bring it back to the corporate fold in 1999--a bit of financial gymnastics that helped prop up Wachner's bank account but ultimately loaded Warnaco's balance sheet with an extra $600 million in debt...
...downs of the market. He didn't finish selling off his more than $100 million in stock and options until this week, though he promised to do so three months ago after being shamed into it. In the interim, the stock spiked upward - O'Neill made an extra 30% by holding on so long, according to market analysts quoted on Salon.com, who said the increase was largely as a result of the administration's energy policies...
...this point his girlfriend, in tight jeans and high heels, slithers into the room, curls up on a chair and lights an extra-long cigarette. The mor-tician's skinny sidekick hovers nearby, cracking his knuckles. "This is a competitive business," he says. "You have to expect some violence...
...unite and rejuvenate them. Last week, he appeared to have nothing to show for four years of hard work and an exhausting campaign: he might have done wonders to reorganize the party structure and humble Labour ministers in parliamentary debate, but the Tories had gained only one extra parliamentary seat...