Word: four
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson committed what is perhaps the most damaging and insensitive act of the day: it decided to print the names of four of those arrested...
...radio, in a broadcast monitored in London by the British Broadcasting Corp., said troops sent to Azerbaijan came under fire four times Monday and overnight, including an armed attack on a convoy of recently demobilized servicemen also carrying women...
...AIDS lobby pushes for their immediate release. To overcome bureaucratic delays, some activists have launched so-called underground testing of drugs that have been of questionable value. The lobby's greatest influence has been at the Food and Drug Administration. AZT, for example, won Government approval in less than four months, compared with a current average of two years. Says James Todd, senior vice president of the American Medical Association: "It's distorted all the traditional principles for drug approval. Penicillin couldn't get through that fast." While some modification of FDA regulations may have been necessary, many people believe...
...always been a hard man to avoid, but these days Ted Turner seems to be everywhere. His thriving TV empire, which started as a single Atlanta UHF station, has grown to four nationwide cable networks. The newest of them, Turner Network Television, has been an unexpected hit, more than doubling its audience after just 15 months on the air. CNN and Headline News, his two all- news channels, grow in resourcefulness and credibility with each passing world crisis. Turner has launched a publishing company, and is shopping for a movie studio (though negotiations to purchase MGM/UA have come...
...served up original movies as well, like Faye Dunaway's Cold Sassy Tree and this month's remake of Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. By 1992 the channel plans to churn out four made-for-TV movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older...