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...very scope of the legislation has brought forth armies of lobbyists to advance the interests of clients ranging from the seven Baby Bell phone companies to cable- TV behemoths like Time Warner and Tele Communications Inc. (TCI). This onslaught of special interests has led consumer advocates and other experts to warn that what began as a laudable attempt to promote competition could wind up benefitting media giants far more than their customers. "The people screwed are the consumers," declares Gary Arlen, a telecommunications consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. "Cable rates will rise in the short term before there's rate relief...
Westinghouse Electric Corp. chairman Michael Jordan looked to boost his Group W broadcasting division last week by pursuing a $5 billion merger with CBS Inc., sources said. Representatives reportedly met on Friday morning to begin negotiating terms for a forthcoming offer, which would create the largest TV-station group in the country, reaching more than 32% of all TV homes. Chemical Banking Corp. and J.P. Morgan & Co. each has committed $1 billion in loans to Westinghouse...
Sanders left MGH in 1981 and Harvard in 1983, moving to North Carolina in 1989 to become the chief executive at Glaxo, Inc., a pharmaceutical manufacturer and the largest company headquartered in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina...
Ellen Zane, who heads Partners Community Healthcare, Inc., the network arm, aims to increase that number to 850 in about five years -- though she faces intense competition from two other networks that are also signing up doctors at a frenzied pace. At times the competition gets bizarre: the 20-physician Concord Hillside Medical Associates in a Boston suburb was bought out by the Lahey Hitchcock network earlier this month. But Emerson Hospital in Concord, where the Hillside group sends many of its patients, is simultaneously negotiating to join the rival Partners network. "The situation is filled with fault lines...
Consider a 1993 survey by the Boston-based consulting group Work-Family Directions Inc., which found that less than two percent of employees use flexible scheduling options such as telecommuting, job-sharing and part-time work. Or look at last month's study by The Conference Board, a business research group, which showed that although 83 percent of 129 companies surveyed offered part-time schedules, only six percent of their employees had ever worked from home...