Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-powered stock. Ebbers can easily issue the 820 million new shares needed to acquire MCI in a tax-free deal. Both combinations are sure to raise red flags at the Justice Department and the fcc. The GTE takeover in particular would raise "serious competitive questions," warns FCC chairman Reed Hundt...
Americans were innocent, in the '50s, we are often told. In the '50s, nice women like Donna Reed waited for their honest, hard-working husbands in modest homes on safe, tree-lines street. Their children learned to ride their bicycles and played games with the neighbor's kids--even after sunset. Trouble lay just under the surface, of course: people had to confront racism, McCarthyism and sexism; they built bomb shelters and thought about the Cold War. For the most part, though, these things remained submerged...
...With his wife Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Jack serves as a surrogate parent to his actors: Eddie, whom he finds working as a runner in a disco; Rollergirl (Heather Graham), named for the rollerskates that never leave her feet, even when the rest of her clothing do; and Reed Rothschild (John C. Reilly), Eddie's boyish sidekick. This family, which includes a few other "stars" and crew members like Little Bill (William H. Macy) and Buck Swope (Don Cheadle), proves surprisingly endearing. As in good mafia films--like The Godfather and Good-fellas--the viewer finds a certain beauty...
...Reed Talada, executive director of Princeton Review of Boston, defended his company yesterday...
...took a leave from the firm to manage the vice- presidential campaign for Gore. After the election, he became deputy director of personnel for the transition, helping salt Gore loyalists throughout the federal bureaucracy and playing a role in the appointments of top officials like Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Assistant Energy Secretary Tom Grumbly...