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...chairman and chief executive officer -- in the new company. Malone had loomed as the * potential big winner of the Paramount fight, the master strategist who would run lucrative Paramount movies and TV shows on his cable systems and thereby tighten his grip on the industry. While that could still happen, the image of Malone as anyone's No. 2 seemed strange. He will certainly be well rewarded for selling out to Bell Atlantic. His TCI and Liberty holdings would be worth about $1 billion in the merged company's stock, making the taciturn Connecticut Yankee one of the richest...
...that too much attention is paid to theories of management and not enough to personalities. ''At least three-quarters of this job is personal,'' he says. ''One person replacing / another on a job can make an entire difference, good or bad. I would tell them, in deciding why things happen, to make more of a study of the people involved.'' For all his wariness, Regan obviously loves the battle and gives back brickbats of his own. ''Having a reasonably short fuse, I am usually very unhappy at a less than perfect performance. We are always under the spotlight. There...
...that his program might confront "a problem in terms of the narrow interpretation of the treaty somewhere in 1989," two years earlier than previous Administration estimates. Perle declared that a new, looser interpretation of the ABM treaty, one that would permit the development of SDI technology, "is going to happen within the lifetime of this Administration." Although Nitze assented that the less restrictive interpretation was correct, he denied that it was Administration policy to apply...
...credit would result in approximately $19 billion in lost investment, and 119,000 lost job opportunities in the U.S. That's because renewables, while getting cheaper all the time, still cost more than fossil fuels. Subsidies can help bridge the gap as renewable technology improves - but that will happen only if businesses can produce solar or wind power at scale, which will happen only if investors can be assured that the tax credits won't suddenly disappear, says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association. (Hear Resch talk about the renewable tax credits on this week's Greencast...
...mean, it was true at this point with the Reagan Administration. It was true at this point with the Clinton Administration. It just seems to be a pattern. We get tired of them even in the best Administrations long before the second term is over. Something bad starts to happen, and we just go, "We know these people too well. We're tired of hearing their voices; we're tired of the wives; we're tired of the whole deal...