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...highly charged political environment. Yet EADS is making progress--the firm already has about 50% of the U.S. nonmilitary helicopter market--with the biggest opportunity being the pending battle to replace the U.S. Air Force's aged refueling-tanker aircraft fleet. The contract, which may be worth $20 billion, was the source of a huge scandal involving Boeing last year over illegal and unethical efforts to land an overpriced deal; Boeing's CEO and CFO lost their jobs, as did top Pentagon officials. That has allowed EADS to get into the game with its own tanker. "The U.S. tanker deal...
...sharing with the Angels in exchange for the Anaheim label (the team was called the California Angels from 1965, the year before it moved from Los Angeles to Anaheim, through 1996). "He's stepping on the little guy, the taxpayer," says Pringle, who claims that under the pre-1996 contract the city would have received $11.5 million more from the team last season. The Angels note that Anaheim is still in the title. A trial is set for November; an injunction to revert to the former name until then has already been rejected (and is under appeal). "The name change...
...will differentiate his brand and lure subscribers and, eventually, big ad dollars. Stern, whose history with Karmazin dates to the mid-'80s, fits in naturally with Sirius' bad-boy image. Frustrated by the feds' indecency crackdown, Stern is literally counting down the minutes (on his website) left on his contract with Infinity, his current home. He has been a relentless promoter for Sirius, trying to coax his 12 million listeners over to pay radio. He is also charging Sirius a fortune to air his signature blend of flatulence jokes and advice to strippers on breast implants: $100 million a year...
Karmazin certainly seemed like a saboteur. "They thought my agenda was to hold back satellite radio," he says of talks he had with Sirius in 2003 about a link with Viacom. What changed his mind? Stern, for one thing, Sirius' deal with the NFL for another, and a lucrative contract to run a publicly traded company for an annual base pay of $1.25 million and 30 million stock options, worth at least $114 million, according to an estimate by Bloomberg...
...have a Monopoly club. It's serious. I make everyone sign a contract saying they'll sit through till the end of the game. Inevitably, if someone's winning [points at self], everyone's like, "I'm gonna go get a snack...