Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Social Studies Lecturer Martin H.Peretz also hosted a much talked about affair forGore, his former social studies tutee. Among otheralumni mingling at the Warner Building were DillonProfessor of International Affairs Joseph S. NyeJr. and cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, who performed withWynton Marsalis...
...Morning America and C-SPAN are all filming) and a meeting waiting to happen. Someone reports that 34% of this year's Grammy nominees will be performing (gratis, of course, as is everyone) and that Michael Jackson needs a call. Thomason is still twisting the arms of CBS, Time Warner and Disney to find out what they will pay to telecast the events, including gala performances by Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Bill Cosby, a reunited Fleetwood Mac, a vast parade with two Elvis impersonators and a lawn-chair precision drill team. How did Thomason end up here? "Obviously...
...health care. Most of the 290,000 jobs created since the recession officially ended in March 1991 have sprung up in the health-care industry, which employs 9 million Americans. Since the election, Bristol-Myers has announced that it is cutting 2,000 of its 53,000 jobs, and Warner-Lambert expects to eliminate 2,700 of its 35,000 positions. Insurance companies, a principal target of Clinton's reform philosophy, are bracing for the worst. Aetna and Travelers have both announced plans for major layoffs...
...Jackass Productions, each putting up $250, to try to snag Roger a record contract. They persuaded him to cut a demonstration tape in Nashville, but after the election Roger sniffed the chance at a better deal and dropped them. Last month he signed a $200,000 contract with Time Warner's Atlantic Records to record his first album. (It is likely to feature several guest stars...
...GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, BY NELSON DeMille (Warner Books; $21.95), a gaudy, cinematic thriller, is two or three levels better than routine, partly because the author's sentences march well. That never hurts. The setting is a dormant military base in Georgia just after the Gulf War. Officers worried about their careers are trying to look busy. Paul Brenner, a criminal investigator for the Army, is there to sort out the bizarre sex murder of Captain Ann Campbell, daughter of the base's commanding general and, not coincidentally, lover of virtually every man on the general's staff. Brenner, digging...