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...investment and a big potential payoff. Early deals to get the oil fields producing again, and to rebuild the country, might be an indicator that the U.S. is in no rush to bring foreign companies into the mix. Halliburton Co., the Houston oil-field supplier, and Bechtel Corp., the San Francisco engineering and construction firm, have been awarded contracts worth close to $800 million. Halliburton was headed by Dick Cheney before he joined the Administration, though the White House says he played no role in the selection...
...elite approves of, are everywhere these days. According to Lipper, the mutual-fund-tracking service, 199 SRI funds today manage $21.6 billion, up from 88 funds with $12.9 billion in 1999. The very names of the stocks these funds own--Horizon Organic, Nature's Sunshine, Peoples Energy and Progressive Corp.--would give a Berkeley sociology professor the warm fuzzies...
...million, plus a $5 million marketing partnership. For programming, among other deals, CSTV has bought national rights to all sports other than basketball and football from Notre Dame, which has millions of fans. DirecTV, the satellite operator recently acquired (from GM's Hughes Electronics) by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to place CSTV on its sports tier, which reaches some 2.5 million subscribers and should benefit from aggressive News Corp. marketing...
...kishke," he'll say, referring to his gut. The assets were being auctioned off by the bankrupt German firm KirchMedia, which failed after owner Leo Kirch overexpanded into pay TV and sports programming. Saban was a dark horse, competing against global media giants like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But by early this year, Saban had talked his way into Germany's insular media community and, with a $2 billion offer, snagged the prize. "Haim never takes no for an answer," says Shuki Levy, a longtime friend...
...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 for $5.3 billion, Saban cashed...