Word: simonizes
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...both coasts were startled by the abrupt ouster of Frank Biondi as chief executive of Viacom late Wednesday. Biondi, a former HBO executive long viewed as the heir apparent to billionaire Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, was widely respected for his management of an empire that included Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster Books, Blockbuster Entertainment and MTV. In a terse statement issued after the financial markets concluded trading for the day, Viacom said that Redstone, 72, had taken over Biondi's responsibilities and would be forming an executive committee of seven Viacom executives to assist him in running the company. While...
Three days later, U.S. Healthcare told Himmelstein his contract was being terminated. David Simon, U.S. Healthcare senior vice president, denies that Himmelstein was canned for anything he said: "Given the fact that he has expressed a lack of comfort with us, we assumed that he no longer wanted to participate and that he would have welcomed the notice that we provided...
...Healthcare's Simon argues that "there is nothing in our contract that should be construed as interfering with the physician-patient relationship. Doctors are encouraged to have open communications with their patients, about treatment, coverage, benefits, even the mechanism by which they are paid. It's just the specific dollar amounts that are to be withheld." But the contract terms cited by Himmelstein seem to prescribe a far greater circumspection from doctors than that...
...entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear that if NATO peacekeeping troops encounter Karadzic or Mladic, "We will do our best to detain them." The two were nowhere to be seen as Smith conducted his meetings. KICKING...
They worked on the idea of running in 1996 against one man, Newt Gingrich, a vividly inviting target who virtually poses for cartoons of himself. Enemies picture Newt as the Simon Legree of school lunches and Medicare, the golfing partner of capital gains, the Churchill from K Mart, the nerd pistolero of the punitive right, the all-purpose villain...