Word: mogul
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...course, someone still has to pay the premium for the carriers? investment in wireless technology (and for allowing you to act like a movie mogul). So part of the FCC?s plan is to provide an automated message telling the caller that he/she is calling a cell phone, and that the carrier is about to take the extra money -- besides the dime or so it costs to use a land line -- out of his/her hide. The FCC?s changes, due early in 2000, won?t be irrevocable; the option of caller-only billing would be up to carriers, and therefore...
...Patricia Hearst, daughter of publishing mogul Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group demands $70 in food for every needy person in California for a ransom. Hearst later declares that she is joining the group of her own will and is indicted in June for her involvement in a San Francisco bank robbery...
...place for someone like this. Last week she started out at a party for Matilda Cuomo's new book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People Who Need No Introduction hoping for some quality time with her. Hey, there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris...
...least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment, the journalist's software-entrepreneur wife, the wife's vulpine media-mogul boss--alternately cavort and limp through the very near future, you get deep inside the tent of both old and new media, where the egos are as large and as tasteless as the limos...
Wetherell's Internet world view is getting its fiercest test in a takeover tussle with Barry Diller--a real-economy mogul if ever there was one--who has made a bid for Lycos, the Internet portal that Wetherell financed and of which he owns 18.5%. While Diller and Wetherell agree that the partnering of Lycos' new-media assets and Diller's traditional media hodgepodge of USA Networks, Home Shopping Network and other film- and television-production interests makes strategic sense, they disagree sharply on the value Diller ascribes to Lycos...