Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion communications empire already straddles three continents and, via satellite, reaches into space. Still, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch detected a weak spot: no major U.S. publishing house. Meanwhile, 170-year-old Harper & Row, which has published authors ranging from Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
Just when it seems that Oral is doomed, fate, in the form of wealthy greyhound mogul Jerry Collins, steps in and saves...
...network can break even with such ratings, Murdoch says, partly because its operation is much leaner and more efficient. "The networks have overheads of the better part of a billion dollars. We have an overhead of 70 salaries," says network TV's newest mogul. Fox has devised other ways of helping the bottom line. Its shows, for instance, will include eight minutes of commercial time an hour, a minute more than on typical network counterparts. Ad time is selling briskly so far: 30-second spots originally priced at just over $30,000 are now going for about...
...arrived at the base of the Snowdon triple chair at 2 p.m., around the time that the sun was beginning to set. From the lift, the trail that ran underneath the chair, "Conclusion," looked like a fun mogul run. That was our first mistake. Our second mistake was skiing down Conclusion, which had bumps that were in all the wrong places. After gracelessly bouncing our way to the bottom, we got in the car and headed north...
...Hollywood did not really need an epitaph, but Mogul David O. Selznick produced one anyway, appropriately overblown, in a moody conversation with Ben Hecht: "Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbling pyramids . . . It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands...