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Last week television networks were the hot property. No sooner had Disney thrown in its lot with Capital Cities/ABC than Westinghouse placed a bet with CBS to acquire the network after striking a deal with its president, Laurence Tisch, for $5.4 billion. The deals are dazzling not for their novelty...
As if trying to explain budget overruns on Waterworld to Hollywood reporters weren't enough, Kevin Costner has found himself on the defensive with a group of people who once called him a friend. The director and star of 1990's Dances with Wolves, which treated Native American culture so...
The Kimberly-Clark Corp. opened the door to European expansion and served competitive notice to rival Procter & Gamble Co. when it announced that it will acquire the Scott Paper Co. for roughly $6.8 billion in stock. The merged company will be the world's largest manufacturer of tissue paper, enjoying...
Nobody in Hollywood can keep a secret -- exceptDisney chairman Michael Eisner. He stunned both Wall Street and the entertainment industry when he announced this morning thatDisneywill acquire Capital Cities/ABC in a $19 billion merger. The deal would be the second-largest takeover in U.S. history (behind the $25 billion takeover...
BUILDING A DATA BASE We think of learning and memory as somehow separate functions; in fact, they're not. Both are processes by which we acquire and store new data in a way that makes them retrievable later on. The storage takes place, says the current theory, as a pattern...