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McAuliffe is the rare moneyman who has linked his personal life with his President. Not since Hollywood mogul Arthur Krim roamed the Lyndon Baines Johnson White House has one fund raiser done so much for one political family. He has raised more than $300 million for Clinton causes, including the presidential library ($75 million), Clinton's legal bills ($8 million), Hillary's Senate campaign ($5 million) and the President's millennium celebration ($17 million). When no one else came through to help the First Family buy a house in New York's Westchester County, McAuliffe interrupted a golf game with...
...Northwest combo, says Greenwald, would have far greater route overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot at consummation...
...such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city, and no company may own more than one broadcast network. Such rules, for example, led to media mogul Rupert Murdoch being obliged to divest himself of the Boston Herald in the early '90s as a condition of his purchase of Fox's Boston affiliate...
...some provisions in the deal - promising a fare freeze (except in case of upticks in inflation or gas prices, of course) for two years after the merger is in effect and vowing to sell most of US Airways' slots at Washington's Reagan National Airport to Black Entertainment Television mogul Robert T. Johnson and his new airline, DC Air. That may not be enough. Look for American's big shots and lobbyists to lead the fight, arguing that two years will go by awfully fast and that the new United has too much brawn in northeast ports to possibly resist...
When she did the deal to launch Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom, she caught the eye of Fox television mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired her to start to cable networks...