Word: ge
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...quick to promote to co-president both Freston, 58, and Leslie Moonves, 54, who ran CBS, filling the vacancy left by Karmazin, 60. Redstone said he would finally call it quits within three years, setting up a horse race for the top job at Viacom, a la GE after Jack Welch retired in 2001. Critical to Redstone, Freston and Moonves are dyed-in-the-wool content guys. Freston, a free-spirited music lover who has served on the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, engineered the phenomenal success of MTV. Moonves, a hard-charging executive, has turned...
...offered a new job that was to change his whole life. For $125,000 a year, he would act as host and occasional star of a weekly television drama series for General Electric; for 10 weeks each year he would also act as a kind of goodwill ambassador to GE plants around the nation...
...first prominent Hollywood actors to defect to the much scorned new medium of TV, Reagan revived his acting career. The General Electric Theater, with Reagan as host from 1954 to 1962, dominated the Sunday-night ratings. But what changed Reagan was his tours of the GE plants. Later, Reagan's opponents often underestimated him, dismissing him as "just an actor," an amateur lacking political experience. What they failed to see was that although Reagan had not spent much time in conventional politics, he had gained both skill and experience in what was to become the politics...
...once made Nauruans among the world?s richest people, but those days are long gone. It?s unknown how much remains in the phosphate royalties trust that once sustained many of Nauru?s 12,000 people, and last month, seeking to recover about $A240 million owed to America?s GE Capital, receivers PPB moved on the country?s five Australian properties...
PLAY DEFENSE As the GE purchase of InVision shows, small-and mid-size security firms are hot bait. They will benefit from both rising government spending and being takeover targets. Among them: Armor Holdings, Verint Systems, OSI Systems and Ceradyne...