Word: bidding
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...that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president Richard Lovett...
...retainer," which non-Miamians might call a bribe. "It was 'Pay me as a consultant, and we'll get you the contract,'" says Assistant U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Fernandez. The Greenpalm began when former Miami finance chief Manohar Surana, caught soliciting a bribe from Unisys in connection with its bid for a $20 million city contract, agreed to wear a microphone for the FBI. Surana caught then city commissioner Miller Dawkins on tape in a Denny's parking lot taking a $25,000 bribe to help with the same Unisys contract. He allegedly taped former city manager Cesar Odio counting...
...Madeleine Albright has demonstrated and will hopefully further demonstrate that even in foreign affairs, with all its geopolitics, missiles, terrorism and embargoes, a woman's voice can be heard and her touch felt. And yes, she will be bringing her womanhood with her--for as she said as she bid farewell to past Secretary of State Warren Christopher, "I can only hope that my heels can fill your shoes...
Naomi S. Stern '97, who is just about to bound up the stairs to leave, says she finished her materials "an hour ago." Her strategy was to bid 940 points on one open-bidding company and apply to three closed ones...
That Loewen's shareholders will benefit, merger or not, is certain. The offer has bid up the value of their stock and, incidentally, of O'Keefe's settlement, which included 1.5 million shares. If SCI prevails at $45 a share, that stock will be worth $22.5 million more than was guaranteed in the settlement...