Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patient slowly recovered last week, Yale officials had to decide whether he would be disciplined for breaking lab rules. They also suspended all research on live Sabia virus and called in the federal Centers for Disease Control to evaluate the setup and procedures at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, where the accident took place. Says Dr. Peter Galbraith of the Connecticut health department: "We are concerned that the incident was not reported immediately. But all our information at this point indicates it's a well...
...contract with the company expires. Chairman Michael Eisner, 52, had rebuffed his longtime protege's plea to succeed the late Frank Wells as second-in-command. And rather than stay as czar of all the % rushes -- supervising Disney's huge, 40-film-a-year slate, including the bijou animation unit -- Katzenberg walked. Joe Roth, the former movie boss of 20th Century Fox who was running the Caravan unit at Disney, assumes Katzenberg's responsibility for the live-action films. Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, and Peter Schneider will be in charge of animation...
...Michael never wanted a No. 2 person," says Richard Frank, who runs the TV unit at Disney. In fact, Eisner, who underwent a successful quadruple-bypass operation two months ago, was looking not to share power but to disperse it -- to impose a system not of hierarchy but lowerarchy, with division heads getting more power. "We're a large, multifaceted, multinational company," Eisner says. "We just all felt we had to decentralize, to run it in the divisional route...
...since the breakup of AT&T 10 years ago has America's $250 billion telecommunications industry been so discombobulated. First came the news last week that LDDS Communications, a Mississippi-based long-distance company, had agreed to pay $2.5 billion for the WilTel long-distance unit of the Williams Cos. Then came word that a federal judge had cleared the way for AT&T to complete its $12.6 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular, the nation's largest cellular-phone company...
Borden mulls dropping its dairy unit -- say hello to Elmer's Glue...