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Time Warner CEO Levin, meanwhile, having pulled off his dream deal, now has a firmer grip on his job, which had been considered tenuous while the merger was pending. Levin's reign has been marked by corporate turmoil, chaos in the Warner Music division and slower than promised reduction of Time Warner's $15 billion debt. The acquisition increases that figure to $17.2 billion, but increased cash flow will ease the debt service. Now Levin has to prove that his strategic vision can generate returns for the shareholders, who, since he took over in January 1993, have watched Time Warner...
...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...
Other classmates recall that Kaczynski had a somewhat tenuous association with a loose group of fellow mathematics and philosophy enthusiasts...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: It may have taken the New Hampshire primary to make Bill Clinton look truly presidential. By early evening, Pat Buchanan had broken free of a tenuous three-way tie with Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander to become, swiftly and uinexpectedly, the bellwether Republican candidate in 1996. Clinton, who made sure to put in a weekend appearance in the state, won a handsome 90 percent of the Democratic primary vote. Both Dole and Forbes suffered commensurately, and Lamar Alexander, the third-place finisher, found more ears for his argument of electability. "There's been a backlash against negative...
...party is a disappointing third in the race. Although the elections are seen by many as a rejection of the Yeltsin government, their immediate impact will be limited. Under Russia's new constitution, the President holds most of the political power in the country, meaning Yeltsin will retain his tenuous hold at least until Presidential elections next June...