Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, when I made my first online purchase, the UPS yen resurfaced. By then the Internet had emerged as a retailing force. I even recommend buying shares of FDX Corp., parent of delivery company Federal Express, as an indirect play on the growth of online shopping. I still believe FedEx is a great stock. But it was the UPS man who had delivered my package. If only...
...They're wonderful people, but because they're the Met, they're totally unable to negotiate anything with us," said Bill Campbell, CEO of Charles River Broadcasting, WCRB's parent company...
...Scarcely 24 hours later, Daly and Semel flew to New York City, where they stunned the entertainment world by telling Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin and other directors of the studio's parent company that they would not renew their contracts. Vice chairman Ted Turner, who had wrangled with the two over their lavish spending, was moved enough to hug them...
Dawson has received an honorary degree from Wayne State, plus a Trumpet award for philanthropy from Turner Broadcasting System (owned by the same parent company as TIME). He shrugs at such honors. "I just want to be remembered," he says, "as an individual who tried to do some good." His mother would be proud...
...known as the BeOS, it's the also-also-ran, that other alternative operating system besides Linux. In the past year the press has fawned over Apple and Linux as they boldly challenged the hegemony of Microsoft's Windows, while Be waited quietly in the wings. Now, with its parent company making an IPO this week, it's time for Be to make its grand entrance. So what is Be? Why is Intel spending millions on it? And why should Bill Gates be afraid...