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...start. The Microsoft battle won't be fully joined until corporate giants like banks, telephone and cable companies, and real estate interests start choosing up sides. If they decide that Gates is trying to take over desktop banking, local communications and other forms of commerce--kidnapping, in essence, their slice of tomorrow's digital pie--their considerable lobbying operations will pile into the fight...
After the memo was obtained by the New York Times, Harned said she had no knowledge that Lott actually said those words. Still Lott is against legislation by body parts, not wanting Clinton to achieve by salami slice what he couldn't with the health-care bill. Lott named his meeting to fight the piecemeal bills "Clinton Care Returns: The Trojan Horse Strategy...
...world champions traded a $5 million a year contract in the person of outfielder Moises Alou to the Houston Astros for two minor league pitchers who will work for considerably less. Owner Wayne Huizenga and Don Smiley, who heads a group trying to buy the team, have pledged to slice the Marlins payroll to a lean $20 million. Enjoy that trophy, Marlins fans ? its the last bit of hardware you'll see in South Florida for a while...
Bradford Faye, a senior vice president at Roper, the polling firm, says he and others are advising clients that the way to get a slice of the $120 billion spent by twentysomethings is to stress tradition as much as individualism. Thus a company like Dewar's draws new drinkers to its Scotch by marketing it not as as an alternative choice but as your father's drink, a classic hallmark of growing up. "The value of the good old days has gone up a lot," he says...
...more like it, as in Jimmy Iovine, head of Interscope Records. Prodded by its new owner, Seagram, Iovine and partner Ted Field are remaking Interscope from a high-risk purveyor of gangsta rap into an imposing presence in rock, R. and B. and gospel, gobbling down an ever bigger slice of the $12.5 billion U.S. record market. God's Property--which went on to sell a heavenly 1 million copies three months after hitting record stores--helped slingshot Seagram's Universal Music Group last summer from fifth place to third place among the six top record companies, with...