Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stretch of prairie north of Fort Worth seems an unlikely home for the "industrial hub of tomorrow." Yet this is where Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot is constructing a 9,600-ft. runway that will carry mostly industrial products rather than human passengers. Perot and his son H. Ross Jr., 30, who heads the project, envision the Alliance Airport as the center of a 4,200-acre industrial park in which companies will manufacture products and distribute them by air freight...
Amid the arguments in the bitter struggle, court documents filed in Delaware gave a vivid picture of the two-year merger talks between Time and Warner. A Time brief showed that the two partners broke off negotiations in August 1988 over Time's insistence that Warner Chairman Steven Ross set a date for stepping down as co-chief executive of the merged company to make way for Time President N.J. Nicholas to hold the chief executive's job alone. Not until Ross agreed last January to step aside five years after the merger were the talks able to proceed...
...cool strategic thinker, a shrewd businessman and cunning marketer. He plans each detail of his productions down to the last frame, in part, says Ross, to counter the racial stereotype that blacks are slipshod businessmen. His marketing sense extends beyond his proven ability to reach an audience; he has cultivated a brand awareness of himself. Making a movie isn't enough, he says. "We're up against the giants trying to hold our own." Stacks of Do the Right Thing T shirts were poised ready for distribution before the film opened. A journal chronicling the making of the film, which...
...Correspondent: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
MAKEUP: Charlotte J. Quiggle (Chief); Eugene F. Coyle (Deputy); Leonard Schulman, Carrie Ross Welch (International...