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...consumer company that fusses over its "guests," Walt Disney Co. can treat its shareholders as if they'd been caught littering the Magic Kingdom. Its CEO, Michael Eisner, already a model for runaway executive pay, made investors livid last year by running up a $100 million tab in hiring and firing Michael Ovitz. More recently the stock has lagged the market, dogged by boycotts by religious groups protesting everything from racy movies to personnel policies and, potentially far worse for shareholders, by concerns that the formula for the Mouse's wholesome animated films has grown stale. Never mind that Disney...
...criminal jury should have." What did disturb the plaintiffs was that two jurors from the criminal trial had sent letters to two jurors in the civil trial suggesting a meeting to help discuss their future financial options and recommending a particular agent. Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki was livid and launched an investigation. The affair was eerily reminiscent of the circumstance in the criminal trial that resulted in what turned out to be the unwarranted dismissal of Francine Florio-Bunten for trying to capitalize on being a juror while the trial was still going on. Florio-Bunten, who was convinced of Simpson...
...software industry is livid over the Administration's refusal to give it the 15% tax credit enjoyed by other exporters. The Treasury Department said legislation--not a rule change--was "more appropriate." Says the head of a computer trade group: "Here's the President wandering around promising everyone everything, as they do in election years, but we don't even get the easy issue." An opportunity bungled--but since the credit would be costly, maybe, a White House aide says, "we got caught doing the right thing...
...airport in Athens, Greece, an aging facility with a reputation for lax security. After the explosion, suspicions were immediately voiced that terrorists might have planted a bomb in Athens, set to go off when the plane turned around in New York and headed for France. Greek authorities were livid at the implication...
...Livid, Kennedy got the Board of Supervisors to pass the country's first ordinance making it illegal for any firm to deny delivery to an address in its business service area. "These people feel that all black people are the same," says Kennedy of the taxicabs, restaurants and furniture stores that redline service. "We all kill, we all maim, and therefore we should suffer. But there is crime all over this city." Indeed, when a Domino's deliveryman was murdered in San Francisco in 1994, it happened in a designated safe, or "green," zone...