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...have made great strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that sexism is most keenly felt. Women still earn 75% of men's salaries and occupy only 11.2% of the executive jobs in FORTUNE 500 companies. The top spot at HP, a geek kingdom since the slide-rule era, is the highest position ever held by a woman in a Dow 30 company...
...tracking stock would bring. Weakened home-video sales and a slowdown in merchandise licensing in the midst of Star Wars mania have hurt earnings; Disney stock is down 25% from its 52-week high. High costs for NFL games for ABC and start-ups such as Animal Kingdom and the Disney Cruise Lines have all pinched the bottom line...
...partly because of the slump in popularity of the post-Lion King animated features (and hence of the ancillary videos and merchandise). The company's stock is down too, losing 25% of its value in the past bull-market year. Costs have zoomed: a billion here for the Animal Kingdom theme park, $700 million there for a couple of cruise ships--eventually it adds up. And for months CEO Michael Eisner has been on the defensive in a suit brought by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who ran the film studio until he was pushed out in 1994, for a share...
...Bourbon dynasty was impoverished and living in Rome. It was eligible for the kingship only because the direct line was tainted with the hemophilia gene inherited from Britain's Queen Victoria. Needy and apparently pliant, he thus became the acceptable heir to Francisco Franco, military dictator of the kingless kingdom of Spain. At Franco's 1975 death, Juan Carlos, above, at his 1962 wedding, took the throne. Spaniards expected little. But the King pressed the move to a constitutional monarchy. When militarists opposed it and attempted a coup in 1981, the King himself rallied the troops to save democracy...
...however, left some tracks--primarily on Tonga, a Pacific island kingdom where Gullichsen washed ashore a few years back after wandering the globe on profits from the sale of his first two companies: the virtual-reality venture Sense8 and the "virtual TV" start-up Warp. Tonga is a tiny place (pop. 100,000), and Gullichsen soon made a powerful friend, the island's Crown Prince Tupouto'a, who appointed him technology adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense, responsible for everything from Tonga's air-surveillance network to its e-mail system...