Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...released until the Christmas season. But already Lee has fought off rival attempts to make the film, wrangled with the poet Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones) and other black nationalists about how their hero should be portrayed on the screen, knocked heads with Warner Bros. over how much money and playing time are needed to tell Malcolm's story, and lost financial control of the project. "I knew this was going to be the toughest thing I ever did," he says, sitting wearily in his editing room. "The film is huge in the canvas we had to cover...
Clurman found ample evidence for concluding that this odd couple, Nicholas and Ross, would not find happiness together. Almost simultaneously with the book's publication, Time Warner's board of directors, largely though not solely at the instigation of ailing Steve Ross, abruptly sacked Nicholas and installed the more cerebral, smoother Levin as Ross's new co-CEO. Does that mean the media giant will now achieve the greatness its masters predict for it? A onetime consultant to both companies tells Clurman: "The merger may turn out to be one of the most brilliant business moves in their history...
...management-led leveraged buyout in 1987 by Borg-Warner has put tremendous pressure on Burns' middle managers to produce revenue. Former employees say president Rodger Comstock's intimidating management style and the firm's alleged habit of breaking bonus promises have contributed to an exodus of managers, forcing Burns to recruit and train new ones, sometimes at the expense of clients' needs...
Such criticism is vigorously disputed by Charles Schneider, head of Borg- Warner's Baker Industries, which controls Burns as well as fourth-ranked Wells Fargo. He calls Baker "the best security-guard company in the world." Burns does provide high-quality service at roughly one-third of the nation's - nuclear power plants, where government screening and training standards are extremely rigorous. But the company's basic, lower-paid guard forces are another story...
...single most radical idea there is," she says emphatically, "and there is a real hunger for putting the personal and the external back together again." Steinem is hardly the first to tap into that need, and indeed, her book (published by Little, Brown, a division of Time Warner) draws heavily, and at times mushily, from the existing literature. The public response defies a number of critics, many of them women, who have decried Steinem for "abandoning the cause" by subsuming feminism in a model for self-recovery and creating a harmful diversion from the feminist agenda. Nonsense, says writer Joan...