Word: mergers
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...strike could not have been better - or, worse, depending whose side you are on. America's Next Top Model, which is hosted and produced by supermodel Tyra Banks, is a huge hit and the flagship program for the Sept. 20 launch of CW, the new network created through the merger of UPN and the WB. With hundreds of hours of raw footage shot, the series' writer-producers were in the process of shaping storylines for the episodes that viewers will tune into as the show begins its fourth season. Three episodes are finished, but the strike could delay or disrupt...
...place just isn't good enough. With Yahoo!, Google and MSN having built better webtraps, AOL is preparing to reinvent itself to catch up. Its parent company, Time Warner (which is also TIME's parent), announced it will present a new plan for AOL on Aug. 2. The 2000 merger with AOL was supposed to be a cure for Time Warner's slow-growth old-media businesses, but it has been a financial disaster, costing Time Warner nearly $100 billion in market value. AOL's inability to remake itself into a more Google- or Yahoo!-like business has been...
...approval of his circle. "Friends said I was very much in love, and I said so myself." (He enjoys hearing other people talk about him nearly as much as he enjoys talking about himself.) But his marriage was more in the nature of a business arrangement - something between a merger and an acquisition. "I love her as a collector does his most prized object," he tells us. "Once acquired, it becomes all he lives...
...alone, with great enthusiasm and resolve," says Axel Poniatowski, a deputy of Villepin's own ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump), "but he runs right into walls." Poniatowski was among the majority of ump deputies who refused to back Villepin's plan last week to facilitate the merger of Franco-Belgian utility Suez with Gaz de France (GDF) by slashing the French state's 80% share in GDF. "Even the ump deputies are now acting like the opposition," says political scientist Dominique Reynié of Sciences Po. Adding to the turbulence, last week Villepin sued three authors...
...would study a company's affairs, require change when there were signs of monopoly and stamp a company "approved" when all was in order. Once approved, the company could operate without fear of prosecution under the country's confusing antitrust law. To Wilson, the corporations commission was a dangerous merger of business and government, sure to enable Big Business to regulate the regulators. Even Taft roused himself to condemn it as "the most monstrous monopoly of power in the history of the world...