Word: flagship
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Forget the punch in the nose; forget the empty Al Capone vault; never mind those daily bouts of empathy with suburban dysfunction... Geraldo Rivera is a serious news guy. And if NBC won?t recognize Geraldo's gravitas by granting him air-time on the news shows of its flagship network, then he?s going to accept an offer from Fox?s cable news channel...
...first Edison school was Larrie Reynolds, a veteran principal and music teacher who harbored deep frustrations over the limitations of public education. That attitude is shared by many of the teachers Reynolds recruited for what is now called the Dodge-Edison School. Most are what Reynolds refers to as "flagship educators"--the best of the old system and some of the brightest prospects emerging from graduate school. He lured them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes a day of development time; $10,000 in "dream money" to spend on everything from books...
...company's bottom line. These days, as chief of the Times Mirror Co., Willes is crunching more than Cheerios--he has set out to prove that newspapers can be packaged and marketed as effectively as snack food. And he has chosen the goliath Los Angeles Times, the chain's flagship, as his latest demonstration project. In the process, the former champion of breakfasts is demolishing the old order at America's fourth largest paper. Last month he swept out publisher Richard Schlosberg III and named himself the successor. Last week he accepted the resignation of a weary Shelby Coffey...
...Online, soared to 9 million, while MSN's stalled out at 2.6 million. Making matters worse, MSN has hemorrhaged money--according to one analyst, up to $250 million as of last year. By last week rumors were flying through Wall Street that Gates was ready to put his online flagship on the block. A Web journal, TheStreet.com even posted a suggested retail price--$1 billion, about what AOL paid for CompuServe--and quoted an unnamed Microsoft executive to the effect that the sell-off was set to go within six months...
...business and political conditions in Russia have improved, the company has flourished as a flagship of the new Russian capitalism. Mosenergo stock has shown a steady advance this year; last year's net profit was $548 million, an increase of $19 million. The company's value is still intimately tied to its quasi monopoly of energy production and distribution across the country. Not only is Mosenergo the only electricity supplier to more than 16 million people in the Moscow region, but it furnishes more than 80% of their heat as well. The company owns 21 electric power stations, with...