Word: ceos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coalition's holy trinity--have emerged as a potent force with an unlikely assortment of top-drawer allies, from Nader on the left to the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Jeff Eisenach on the free-market right. Senate majority leader Trent Lott is an old college buddy of Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale's. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cooled on Microsoft after a private dinner in 1995 during which he was rebuffed by the notoriously apolitical Gates, who nonetheless knew enough to call the G.O.P. a pawn of the religious right...
What's worse, the ill feelings may translate into congressional action. Last week Sun CEO Scott McNealy was on Capitol Hill lobbying House Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde. Orrin Hatch, Hyde's Senate counterpart, has already held a Microsoft hearing, and is likely to hold more next year; Hyde is mulling similar action. "No one company," Hatch has solemnly opined, "should be able to dominate everything in one industry...
...player should be able to dominate a horse trade. Microsoft in the past seemed to regard the Federal Government as an industrial-era irrelevancy; Gates has donated startlingly little political money by CEO standards, and he opened an official lobbying office only two years ago. The company's disdain for D.C. was written between every line of its response to the Justice complaint, which Microsoft labeled "perverse...
...imagination behind Ontario belongs to Larry ("I hate to shop") Siegel, CEO of the Mills Corp. in Arlington, Va. He has fashioned perhaps the only hot trend in mass retail: value megamalls, or outlet centers with huge doses of entertainment. This concept has made Mills, which operates as a real estate investment trust, the nation's fastest-growing, publicly traded mall developer...
Puff Daddy's ability as a record company CEO to recognize talent was evident at the concert as groups, like 112, on the Bad Boy record label, gave top-notch performances. However, his own abilities as a performer are much less obvious. While his messages of peace and race relations add to the Daddy's overall positive image, the "No Way Out World Tour" (which actually only appears in U.S. cities) demonstrated that Puff Daddy's talents are best applied off-stage...