Word: poaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alas, when Melrose returns in the fall, the writing team will consist of a doctor, a lawyer, a performance artist and a New York City playwright who has worked on Homicide. That's a high-minded bunch. If we must endure more, Melrose would be wise to poach a few writers from the Simpsons...
...Guber may not be allowed to ride off into the sunset. Just last week former colleagues were accusing him of trying to poach several projects from Sony's development coffers, including an animal-rescue story called Elephants. And the Los Angeles Times reported that Sony is investigating the studio's accounting practices, although Sony denies this...
...owner, a local landlord named Mahadeswara, had hired Raju to poach deer and other game favored in local feasts. Gun owners often hire tribesmen as shooters because of their knowledge of the forest. One evening last spring, Raju, the landlord and two other poachers hid near a water hole. At dusk a tiger approached within a few yards. Raju claims he was reluctant to shoot it, but the landlord insisted. He promised, but never delivered, payment of 110 lbs. of millet -- worth...
...years, cable-TV operators and telephone companies have behaved like jealous rivals -- spreading gossip about each other's weaknesses, whining to regulators about monopolistic bullying and watching with suspicion any attempt by one to poach on the other's territory. The sniping has grown even shriller in recent months as it became clear that the two industries were on a collision course in their separate efforts to build the so-called electronic super-highway -- that futuristic information pipeline over which people will soon order up everything from the latest Hollywood movies to the hottest new video games...
...enough for Ovitz; he's thinking bigger, ignoring nearly all the comfortable old show business boundaries. Lately he has extended his radius of operations, scaring the bejesus out of Madison Avenue by devising two dozen smart, sexy TV spots for Coca-Cola, and he may be looking to poach other business from the ad agencies. And still he wants more. He has turned himself into the movie industry's highest-profile investment broker in the past few years, arranging the multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Columbia Pictures by Sony and MCA/Universal by Matsushita...