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Reinhard Mohn inherited the modest German publishing house that his great-grandfather founded in 1835, and he turned it into a global media giant called Bertelsmann. Today that firm owns book publisher Random House, the BMG music group and a majority stake in the European TV network RTL, among other properties. Mohn, 81, stepped back from active management a decade ago, but the company's transition to outside executives has not been smooth...
...Jacobs, NCAA director of championships. “There might be an impact on the final seeding, but it’s really hard to say at this point because we don’t know the disparity. But I would think they would tend to have a more modest impact than a significant...
...bidding began cautiously. Event emcees Aaron K. Harris ’06 and Nina E. Glass ’03 sold the first few dates for modest prices of around $30 apiece...
Ending global poverty requires reforming an oppressive legal apartheid that makes it impossible for the poor to legitimately own their modest homes or obtain official business permits...
Sounds like a blockbuster drug, right? Wrong. Here's where those pesky business considerations come in. Once Boehringer's executives started doing the math, they quickly realized that BIRR 4 was not commercially viable. Its modest therapeutic effects, combined with the need to provide the drug so early in the infection process, severely limited its marketability. Two and a half years ago, Boehringer dropped further development of BIRR...