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...exploits of Ivan Boesky and his fellow corporate raiders, everyone has become acquainted with such phrases as "mergers and acquisitions," "insider trading" and "hostile takeover." But while the media have closely covered the excesses of Wall Street, they have not been so careful to report the recent slew of takeovers in their own industry. Ben Bagdikian, the dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, has called these developments, in a book of the same name, "The Media Monopoly...
Frustrating for second-year Coach Mike Getman, who tried a slew of offensive combinations in an attempt to break a season-long scoring slump...
...slew of new Nobel laureates are recognized for developing drugs, insights into the subatomic world, unraveling the mysteries of photosynthesis, and a theory of prices and markets...
Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...
...more I hear about such natural disasters, the more helpless I feel. There hasn't been such a slew of tragedies holding the media's attention since the big disaster movie boom of the 1970s when sharks, infernos and ship wrecks covered the movie ad pages. Perhaps the fact that so many natural disasters occurred within one short time period is just some sort of bad coincidence. But the fact that so many of these disasters are considered worst-evers in their categories probably has a more real-world cause...