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...billion for a 25% share of Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that owns, among other things, cable outlets in 36 states. Southwestern Bell spent $650 million in February for just two suburban cable systems in Washington. The Bell Atlantic-TCI deal dwarfed the bidding war between Barry Diller's QVC shopping network and MTV-owner Viacom for Paramount Communications, which had held Hollywood and Wall Street spellbound in recent weeks. It also thickened the plot, since TCI-controlled Liberty Media has been a chief backer of Diller's, whose nearly $10 billion bid for Paramount tops Viacom...
...Statue of Liberty, Wolper has lined up 850 drill- team members, 300 tap dancers, 200 Elvis Presley impersonators, 150 banjo players, two aircraft carriers and one President of the United States. To help pay the spectacle's $30 million bill, Wolper offered the TV rights to the networks. ABC bid $10 million, beating out NBC, the only other network that took part in the auction. ABC's competitors did not mind losing the mock Presleys, but they did have an interest in reporting on that last fellow in the lineup. As part of its deal with Wolper, ABC agreed...
With extremely limited facility in Japanese, I am also generally at a loss to understand advertisements. An occasional English word accompanied by a photo tends to indicate that cell phone providers and green tea producers frequent the walls of the Tokyo metro. Posters supporting the Tokyo 2016 Olympic bid have been a recent addition...
...years Oil companies survey sites and bid on available leases...
Favre, 38, is certainly not the first athlete to flip-flop on bidding farewell to his game. Pitcher Roger Clemens, the king of comebacks, has retired a total of three times. Lance Armstrong left cycling in 1996 to battle cancer and returned to win seven consecutive Tour de France titles. Other stars have re-emerged to save a struggling franchise, like Michael Jordan, who proclaimed his 1995 return to the Chicago Bulls after a failed bid at pro baseball with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The deathless Rocky franchise aside, the "sweet science" seems to specialize...