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...year the parks accounted for about 27% of the company's $25.4 billion in sales and nearly 50% of its $3.2 billion in operating profits. In the company's most recent quarter, "once again, parks and resorts proved to be an extraordinary driver of higher earnings," noted ceo Michael Eisner. The new 55-acre California Adventure is part of a $1.4 billion expansion that aims to keep the Mouse a step ahead of ever more powerful competitors like Universal Studios, now part of the $70 billion French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal...
...made him a one-man empire. But the clear selling points are the long, taped segments of him hobnobbing with Hollywood big shots. "I want to show not just what I do in my kitchen but what I do in my life," he says. That that life involves Michael Eisner and Kelsey Grammer, of course, doesn't hurt...
...company whose domination of the software business made it one of the world's most valuable entities--and the target of a federal antitrust suit. Yet even the Micro-monopolists went running to the FTC to complain. "I never had a problem with the merger," Disney chairman Michael Eisner insisted to TIME this fall. "I have a problem with the fact that there might be a single entity that decides what intellectual property goes into the house...
...Eisner is, of course, the guy who led the charge against AOL Time Warner at the FTC. And ironically, his case would not have had nearly as much resonance if Time Warner had not committed what one of its own executives calls "the stupidest business decision of the year." On May 1, after months of wrangling with Disney over a new retransmission contract for Disney's ABC television stations, Time Warner Cable shut the network off its system in New York City, Houston and Los Angeles...
...NASA even get involved in this kind of private-sector silliness? How did the agency that made its name in the heady days of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong get mixed up with the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Michael Eisner? Part of the problem may be that NASA has simply put too many of its budgetary eggs in the space-station basket--scrapping in the meantime a number of smaller, worthier projects like its long-dreamed-of mission to Pluto (see box). As public interest in the giant orbiting construction project continues to wane, NASA has grown increasingly desperate...