Word: swap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway offices in early August. "The fact that he had me come over to his office means he didn't think any deal was going to happen," says Karmazin, noting that real negotiations take place on neutral turf. But after getting reacquainted with Redstone and discussing a swap of some stations, Karmazin says he began to realize that a bigger deal might be possible...
Redstone has always taken big risks. The Paramount bidding went $2 billion higher than his target, but he spent the money anyway. He now says he'd never burden Viacom like that again and notes that the CBS deal, a stock swap, was done without paying a premium or adding debt...
Linux and the open-source movement that spawned it are among the most exciting and important things going on in the software world today. But the setup is just too complex for the average person. A few weeks after my column ran, I had to swap the PC I was using for another one that didn't have Linux, and I still couldn't install the version from Red Hat without tech support...
...such simple items as trash cans. Design magazines are hot (Architectural Digest is about to launch a new publication called Motoring). Moreover, signature design is no longer the realm of the snobby, afford-anything rich. Ask Martha Stewart, or the prominent architects and furniture and car designers who swap industries these days just to give products that extra mark of distinction. Thus Hirshberg, who began his career as a Pontiac designer, is doing a newspaper. An everyman-discount store like Target, for instance, hires architect Michael Graves to design a toaster. And an everyman-car company like Ford hires...
...Blair bulletin boards, fans and foes gather around the Internet cracker barrel to swap certainties. "Seeing The Blair Witch Project is the most terrifying experience, cinematic or otherwise, that I've ever had in my life," JJ-Spaceboy posted last week. RHinkley demurred: "I snuck in and I still felt ripped off." And SRKROL got that familiar trepidation: "The bad thing about it is the fact that I live in a heavily wooded area, with a cemetery dating back to the 1750s half a block away, it's really late, and my three dogs need to go for a walk...