Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollars. When Sony announced its agreement to pay $3.4 billion in September for Columbia Pictures Entertainment, the Japanese firm impressed Hollywood with its savvy choice of executives to run the studio: Guber and Peters. But there was one major hitch: in March the two had signed a five-year contract with Warner, which the studio claims was an exclusive arrangement...
Warner Bros., which is controlled by Time Warner, is suing Sony, Guber and Peters in Los Angeles Superior Court for $1 billion, accusing them of breaching the contract. Warner has asked the court for a permanent injunction, on which the court is expected to rule this week, to prevent Guber and Peters from working for anyone else. Warner contends that Guber and Peters are responsible for more than 50 of the studio's current projects, including the film version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Sony and the two producers are countersuing for $100 million, charging Warner with...
...tell you what I think," said Deep Throat. "The top bananas at HDS are more willing to serve inexpensive but non-nutritive iced tea or lemonade than orange or apple juice. Of course, this leaves the students either to squeeze the bone-dry oranges or just to contract scurvy...
...scholar, Claudia D. Goldin, said in an interview last night that she would probably accept the offer from the Economics Department--if the terms of the contract are favorable...
Goldin, whose latest book Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women will be released in January, said she plans to visit the University later this month to meet department members and discuss a possible contract with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence...