Word: founder
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...says and his disarming, wide-toothed smile and how hard he works to make you like him. That's how he does it. And in part, that's how he got to this corner-office suite with the view of Rockefeller Center--the former digs of legendary CBS founder William Paley as well as Karmazin's predecessor, Michael H. Jordan--and why, when Viacom completes its acquisition of CBS, he will be running the day-to-day operations of the newly minted media giant...
...managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full, sold during its first day of availability last November. "Tom Wolfe's was set in Atlanta," she says, "so it was the hottest...
Newell is co-founder and managing director of Valve Software, the creator of the action-adventure game "Half-Life." Released a year ago, the game has taken the computer gaming world by storm...
Before entering politics, Mkapa worked as a journalist, holding prominent positions in several publications, and was a founder of a national news agency...
...Participants joined in an intensive series of workshops, panel discussions and other activities beginning last Wednesday. A keynote address was delivered Monday morning by Marie C. Wilson, founder of Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Wilson is president of the Ms. Foundation and president of the White House Project, an organization seeking to create the political conditions for women to launch successful presidential campaigns...