sentences:  In February 1978, the Washington Star Syndicate was sold (along with its parent company) to Time Inc. A little more than a year later, the Universal Press Syndicate acquired the Star Syndicate from the remaining assets of the Washington Star Company.In May 1978 Scripps merged United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association to form United Media Enterprises.Although the Washington Post Writers Group was formed in 1973, it didn't begin syndicating comic strips until 1980 with Berkeley Breathed's popular strip "Bloom County".