Word: moguling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BILL GATES The Microsoft mogul gave $15 million to Harvard University, where he dropped out. This is part of a joint $25 million gift with Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer--a Harvard graduate--to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. Of this, $20 million will be used to construct a research and teaching facility named after the donors' mothers. The remaining $5 million will endow a professorship. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, also gave $12 million to the University of Washington to help pay for a proposed $52 million law school building that...
Although Close's portrayal should be enough to entertain older audiences, there are a few clever concepts thrown into the film. This version of "101 Dalmatians" has been updated to the nineties, so that Cruella is a fashion mogul with a large corporation and Roger designs video games. In the movie, Roger is working on a game featuring Dalmatians, but he cannot find the perfect villain for his creation until he meets De Vil, whose dementia serves as a twisted inspiration...
...soft, what light through mogul's closed mind breaks? It is the glimmer of belief that there might be an audience for movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard. "Much Ado showed Hollywood how successful and enjoyable a Shakespeare movie could be," says Lindsay Law, president of Fox Searchlight Pictures...
What does this mean for the journalism you get? We believe this question arises whether a news organization is owned by an individual mogul or a big corporation. Either way, the owners have the potential to be benign or meddlesome. Some have a tradition of respecting editorial integrity. Others have ideological biases that they push. A few--private owners as well as public corporations--cater slavishly to their advertisers and powerful pals and seek favorable coverage of their personal causes and business endeavors. Most are bad at covering their own financial interests and dealings. And almost all are commercial enterprises...
What does this mean for the journalism you get? We believe this question arises whether a news organization is owned by an individual mogul or a big corporation. Either way, the owners have the potential to be benign or meddlesome. Some have a tradition of respecting editorial integrity. Others have ideological biases that they push. A few--private owners as well as public corporations--cater slavishly to their advertisers and powerful pals and seek favorable coverage of their personal causes and business endeavors. Most are bad at covering their own financial interests and dealings. And almost all are commercial enterprises...