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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...originality, daring and audacity." In November it nabbed five Genies (Canada's Oscar equivalent), including one for director David Cronenberg. It also earned a chilling blast of invective from Ted Turner, boss of bosses of the film's U.S. distributor, Fine Line Features (and vice chairman of Time Warner, parent of TIME). Now Crash--from J.G. Ballard's notorious 1973 novel, and with an NC-17 warning sticker affixed--finally opens in the country that invented car culture...
...push for the other companies to settle. Investors believe lifting the threat of costly litigation would send the valuation of tobacco rocketing skyward -- Philip Morris stock rose $6 in February on rumors that a deal might be near. Wall Street seemed pleased by the settlement news: Brooke Group, the parent company of Liggett, rose 5/8 to 47/8, while Philip Morris tumbled 61/8 to 1157/8 and RJR Nabisco fell 3/4 to 311/2. But Philip Morris won't be following Liggett's lead, at least until the company decides that it's share of the some $600 million Big Tobacco spends annually...
...also basking in a warm glow of goodwill for having created employment. Along with 850 construction spots, the theaters have created roughly 100 permanent jobs in each city. "This isn't a program," says Lawrence Ruisi, president of Sony Retail Entertainment, the New York City-based parent of Sony Theaters, which had long been interested in trying to develop movie theaters in minority areas but lacked the entree. "It's a real business that makes economic sense." But Sony couldn't pull off any deals until Johnson and his business partner, venture capitalist Ken Lombard, now president of Johnson Development...
...costs about twice what it did in 1970. Yet from 1970 through 1994, government figures show, median family income in constant dollars increased only 10%. In more recent years it has actually fallen below the 1986 figure. Taken together, these trends make tuition a very painful prospect for any parent whose kid has just been accepted by Penn or, for that matter, Harvard, Yale or Princeton...
...appoint a new president who would not report to Arledge. But when Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., decided he wanted to make such a change, Arledge fought it, arguing that he was still at the top of his game. By some accounts, Michael Eisner, chairman of ABC's parent Walt Disney Co., intervened on Arledge's behalf (the two worked at ABC at the same time during the 1970s). In the end, Arledge prevailed upon Iger to let him retain at least nominal power for another year, until June 1998--with Westin reporting...