Word: turner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...widening flood of Americans into later life--Tina Turner turns 60 this year!--guarantees that elder care will be a 21st century growth industry. The market, which was $86 billion in 1996, is expected to reach $490 billion by 2030. That potential is attracting such big developers as the Hyatt Corp. and Marriott International hotel operators. The 3,300 units of senior housing that Hyatt operates in 16 communities around the country are worth an estimated $500 million...
...Scarcely 24 hours later, Daly and Semel flew to New York City, where they stunned the entertainment world by telling Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin and other directors of the studio's parent company that they would not renew their contracts. Vice chairman Ted Turner, who had wrangled with the two over their lavish spending, was moved enough to hug them...
Despite the known passion the pair have for moviemaking, a studio executive who knows both men well said that lately they appeared to be tired and unhappy with the increased pressures from top executives in New York City. In the past they clashed with Turner about the WB--he was against launching it--and about the price Turner's cable channels would pay for Warner movies. Just last week Levin said he wanted to sell part of Warner Bros. retail stores, a piece of their empire and one in which they have a direct financial interest...
...first 10 minutes. Blackwell's sold 92 in the first half hour. At Storyteller, in the small town of Thirsk in north Yorkshire, a staggering 56 were snapped up that first afternoon--"and we don't usually sell books in hardback at all," says store owner Judy Turner, who has taken to selling the book at cost rather than confront the "droopy faces" of those who cannot afford the $17 cover price. Less than two weeks after its release in Britain, the book has gone through 10 printings and sold 270,000 copies, outstripping its nearest competitor, Thomas Harris' Hannibal...
Dawson has received an honorary degree from Wayne State, plus a Trumpet award for philanthropy from Turner Broadcasting System (owned by the same parent company as TIME). He shrugs at such honors. "I just want to be remembered," he says, "as an individual who tried to do some good." His mother would be proud...