Word: mergers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scale of 1-5, how closely did you follow the Radcliffe merger? On a scale of 1-5, how involved were you with Radcliffe before it became an allied institute? How active are you now with issues affecting women at Harvard College? Did you participate in a protest in the last four years...
...deal regarding the fees TW would pay to carry various Disney-owned channels on its cable systems and--most notably--to convert the Disney Channel from a premium service to basic cable. Disney negotiators deny they had got that far. And certainly after Time Warner announced its merger with America Online on Jan. 10, Disney didn't feel it had a deal. What it had then was leverage. Figuring that TW would tread lightly lest it disturb Washington's slumbering regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission, Disney asked for that one thing all negotiators hold...
...would have thought that Time Warner (parent company of Time Inc., which publishes TIME) would be on its best behavior while awaiting regulatory approval for its mammoth merger with America Online. But in its effort to win an arm-wrestling match with Disney, TW displayed the attributes of some of its prize properties: the discretion of Jenny Jones, the gentleness of Tony Soprano...
Another literary source could have been the Warner Bros. film library. Time Warner officials were outraged that Disney had tried to wring commercial advantage out of the big merger, using the FTC and FCC examination of the deal as air cover for an opportunity to enhance Disney's bottom line. They sounded like Claude Rains in Casablanca, who would have been "Shocked! Shocked!" that one communications conglomerate would dare to profit at the expense of another...
...Giuliani is not even running for president. I thought to myself: This is surely a small, defining moment in the evolution of the New York Times. Normally "the newspaper of record" reserves that central plot of the front page for news of some seriousness and prestige - a war, a merger of corporate giants, Alan Greenspan's blood pressure. But here, in the space set aside for Big History, was the story of Rudy's domestic untidiness - all strictly tabloid, from the pix to the quotes to the heds...