Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, investors grew nervous as the Saatchis began building a new kingdom in the consulting business. The move continued the company's record of steep revenue growth through acquisition. During 1988 alone, the company purchased 17 consulting firms, branching out into such new areas as market research and executive recruiting...
...much it had paid for the acquisition, but Carlton's 1988 annual report put revenues for the production company at $95 million. "The Zenith acquisition represents our most significant entry into the international market," said Mel Harris, president of Paramount's Television Group. "By aligning ourselves with the United Kingdom's major independent producer, we are positioning ourselves for the 1990s and 1992, when Europe's trade barriers fall...
...United Kingdom, where thedominant Conservative and Labour parties oftenshut out groups with broader-based support, PR isalso a controversial topic...
...into puffy cheeks, a cervical collar ever at his neck, Marcos insisted he was too sick to travel to New York City for arraignment on charges of racketeering and real estate fraud. Still, he argued he was up to a trip to the Philippines, ready to win back his kingdom in MacArthurian style. Hawaii, Marcos proclaimed, was only his Elba. Everyone else knew it was St. Helena...
...order to absorb "bad rays," or those who believe their country's former greatness was attributable to a national qi (vital energy) that even now is moving inexorably from the West to Japan on its way back to China, a shift that will once again confirm the Middle Kingdom as the center of the world. All these people know that the man is right because they know that the logic behind marrying dead people, to ensure them a peaceful afterlife, is dead wrong. The real if equally fanciful reason is that the unmarried dead are feared capable of becoming angry...