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...women counter that such concerns are exaggerated -- and some of their male colleagues agree. "Women worked very well in Latin America," says "Mike," a covert paramilitary specialist. "In a lot of cases their informants are looking to unload on someone. They've got a story to tell, and they actually feel more comfortable telling a woman. They're macho, but they're also paternalistic, thinking 'maybe I can help her,' or 'I'm going to impress her, and how much more can I get for her.' That works to a woman's advantage...
...solution would be to acquire EMI, known for such performers as Garth Brooks and Sinead O'Connor. Or Murdoch might go after the 15% stake in Time Warner, worth about $2 billion, that the Seagram Co., which recently bought MCA and its Universal Studios, may be ready to unload. But another buyer for those shares, the phone giant AT&T, is rumored to be in talks with Time Warner...
...newest customers. Defense Secretary William Perry today said the U.S. has offered to sell F-16 fighter jets to Poland and "a number of Central European countries." But caveat emptor: TIME's Thompson says the jets are probably the same 200 older models that the Pentagon has failed to unload on the Philippines, Morocco and Venezuela. "You buy them for $8 million," Thompson says, "but you have to have $6 million in improvements done on each...
...instead release its films through Universal. (Spielberg and Katzenberg say they would prefer that; Geffen says Warner Bros. would be a second choice.) But when Matsushita's bosses meet with Wasserman and Sheinberg this week, they may take the long Japanese view and decide they don't want to unload MCA -- least of all to Geffen and Spielberg. "I'm not sure Matsushita is a seller," says an entertainment analyst. "Besides, the Japanese might say, 'Don't two of these three guys work for us already...
...month period before he was fired in April. Jett now claims to have been acting with the knowledge of his superiors. The scandal led Welch to sack the Kidder chairman, Michael Carpenter, whom he had installed in 1989, and triggered fresh speculation that GE was aching to unload the troubled Wall Street company...