Word: channelized
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...corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned him to ask for "more...
...Enforcement officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec) have recommended that the agency file suit against Becker, 36, and Zimmerman, 32, alleging that the couple illegally traded on insider information about the stocks of Avon Products, Drugstore.com and eBay. The story was first reported on financial-news channel CNBC and was confirmed by sources close to the investigation...
Although Young says he expects that most reaction will be positive, Boston’s ABC affiliate has received strong complaints from some of those who watch the show, according to Program Director Elizabeth Cheng of ABC Channel...
Cheng said that although Channel 5 wants feedback from viewers, it does not encourage children to watch daytime programming...
...Rangers became his cash gusher. The Japanese show had been seen as too quirky for foreign audiences. Saban saw it differently and bought the foreign rights in 1985 for just $10,000 an episode. Eight years later he finally found a U.S. buyer in a fledgling children's cable channel owned by Murdoch's Fox Corp. With production and distribution support from Fox, Saban built the Power Rangers into a massive global franchise and in 1996 merged his media company with Murdoch's, eventually forming Fox Family Worldwide. In 2001, when he and Murdoch sold Fox Family to Disney...