Word: behemoths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musical moguls since 1984, when Barry Diller moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg from Paramount to Disney, and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. to Disney. Those shifts cued the creation of Fox as a fourth TV network and Disney's growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman. Says director and CAA client Martin Scorsese: "It will...
...other behemoth news, MARLON BRANDO has announced that he "is seriously contemplating Irish citizenship." The star, currently filming in a village in County Cork with Johnny Depp and Debra Winger, said he had "never felt as at home in a place as I do here." Although the O is at the wrong end of his name, Brando claims Irish blood via his grandmother...
...cannot have a strong personality representing the old company," Allis says. But he says IBM chief Louis Gerstner recognized the move was necessary to maintain the allegiance of key brains at Lotus -- espcially Ray Ozzie, the creator of the lucrative Lotus Notes program that mayhelp IBM challenge software behemoth Microsoft...
Engineer ace Aaron Loutsch, a 6'4 230 pound behemoth, was on the hill for MIT, while Harvard countered with seniors Scott Davidson and Tim Vanech...
...health services company in the world just got bigger. The Federal Trade Commission today approved a merger between the nation's two largest hospital chains, first-ranked Columbia/HCA and second-ranked HealthTrust Inc., taking the rapid consolidation of American health services to a new level. The new $15 billion behemoth will have 320 hospitals and more than 100 outpatient surgery centers in 36 states, England and Switzerland. HealthTrust becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia/HCA, which was founded just 8 years ago by chief executive Richard Scott. The companies claim that by combining, they will be better positioned to control...