Word: warners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies still in the bidding for the Boston franchise--Warner Amex and Cablevision--say they want the contract here for their "track record" to bid for future projects across the country. Sheila Mahony, vice president of Cablevision, says her company is "anxious" to work with Boston because the city's system is "already precedent-setting." And Borton, the man setting those precedents in hopes of making Boston an example for the nation, is anxious to see his ideas in action.CrimsonAmanda E. Well...
...More important, military reformers charge, the Pentagon has fallen into a "goldplated mousetrap" of always holding out for the final, supremely costly "last 10%" in technology that might give a weapon an unconquerable edge in battle. Even some military officers agree with this criticism. Says retiring Major General Volney Warner, chief of U.S. Readiness Command: "We have been captives of technology. There is always some development promised tomorrow that we ought to hang on to a weapons system, so that system stays out there ten, eleven, twelve years being perfected and meanwhile we are stuck with old and ineffective weapons...
Then still another bidder joined the action. Mobil put together a $5 billion credit package, and Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. issued a statement leaving little doubt that his company was poised to pounce. Said he: "We know Conoco and the business it operates. Conoco is a great company with fine resources and excellent management and personnel." Surprisingly, Warner's message shrugged off possible Government objections, saying, "Preliminary studies indicate that a Mobil-Conoco merger would not create difficulties under existing antitrust guidelines...
...million in commercials last year), announced in mid-June that within the past year his company had pulled out of 50 TV movies and series episodes, including seven of the ten series that Wildmon has cited as "top sex-oriented."* Last week representatives of at least four companies-including Warner-Lambert, SmithKline, Gillette and Phillips Petroleum-conferred privately with CBTV, some in apparent hope that Wildmon would excuse them from the boycott hit list if they would go and sin no more. Wildmon in turn announced: "I think consultation and conversation and compromise are far superior to confrontation...
...matter how much promise exists in new entertainment technology, Hollywood still lives for the box-office smash. Big resale prices to television and other video outlets, and the resulting profits, are largely determined by the success of a movie in regular theaters. The industry hopes that Warner Bros.' Superman II, the sequel of the fifth most popular picture ever made, will draw audiences back to theaters this summer. If the Man of Steel succeeds, Hollywood believes that it can prosper with movies that play both on the big screen and on the little tube...