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...Teddy") TURNER IV, who was downsized by his dad Ted Turner, when Ted's biz merged with Time Warner. ("You're toast," dad said over dinner.) Teddy has two new jobs: one at his own company, which is developing an enhanced form of cable delivery; another with Forest Hills Cos., a nascent entertainment concern. He may one day even offer his pa some competition...
...companies and small through a combination of restructuring, new products and lower prices. "That's exactly what a competitor is supposed to do, get more efficient and gain market share; and that's what they did," says August Busch III, president and chairman of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Busch should know, having lost somewhere north of $500 million trying to make Anheuser's Eagle Snacks division a power chip. In February, Eagle gave up; it recently sold four plants to Frito-Lay. A-B launched Eagle in 1979, but the division never turned a profit. "We could never get enough market...
...decade ago was an unusual recognition of her talents. Never mind that Gabon had not even had a station chief until three years before or that Vertefeuille ran a one-woman station, in charge only of herself, an assistant and a code clerk. The point was, she was a COS...
...Love Letters, would seem just the fellow for the job. And his sextet of reliable actors -- John Cunningham, Jack Gilpin, Julie Hagerty, Mary Beth Peil, Robert Stanton and Jennifer Van Dyck -- shifts from one role to another as smartly as commuters leaping from the Stamford express to the Cos Cob local. But as directed by Playwrights boss Don Scardino, the evening is a failure. It ransacks the canon for easy laughs and outbursts. With only a few minutes devoted to each story, the characters rarely rise above caricature...
...Minneapolis-based financial-services firm disclosed that its investments in the arcane derivatives market could saddle investors with more than $700 million in losses. The debacle at Piper Jaffray Cos. stemmed from investments made by a single portfolio manager...