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Many of Universal's 7,000 employees are nervous about working for such famously hard-nosed bosses. Wright sought to quell those fears at Universal headquarters last week. He says NBC would look for $200 million in "synergies" from new revenues and combined efficiencies, and $200 million from cost cuts, including facilities, purchases and people. As for big layoffs, Wright says, "Chopping off heads won't get you those kinds of numbers." One head that won't roll: Vivendi Universal Entertainment boss Ron Meyer. Both men argue that their staffs and goals fit. "We're not prima donnas here," says...
...little nervous, because TRL is a big show,” Grant said afterward...
Eriko Kitagawa announces her presence in the lofty lobby of TBS television network's headquarters in Tokyo as a timid, ruffled-bloused housewife would: a small side step, brief eye contact and a nervous giggle. Soft curls, a conservative skirt and subtle makeup complete her outfit. Is this the scriptwriter who single-handedly brought Japanese television drama to the world stage and at the same time empowered the typically demure female lead? We sit down to?what else??tea, and instantly Kitagawa's sayonara-girl image snaps with her cocky first statement: "I always know what I'm writing will...
...Predicting the future of a country as enigmatic and erratic as North Korea is a treacherously speculative pursuit. But experts like Park have good reason to be nervous about the economic ramifications if Kim were to fall and the two Koreas were to move toward reunification. North Korea's gross national product is less than 4% the size of the South's. The North needs basic roads and power plants, new technology and factories, and food and jobs for an estimated 23 million starving citizens. Marcus Noland, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, says...
...underdog, but he's always wanted to help people." Still, she was surprised to run into her son one day at Columbia, where she was getting her art degree. "He was secretly going to premed classes without telling us," she says, with a reminiscent smile. Dean was nervous when his parents found out. He describes his father as "a strict disciplinarian," and he was sure the old man would think leaving finance for medical school "was crazy. But he never said one word about it. I would have done it anyway, but it just would have been harder ... In some...