Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear of information, Zeng and Zhang are signs that Beijing has settled on a policy for the Net that is as bold as it is surprising: jump in with both feet. Though China still blacks out dozens of sites (you won't read this story online in China; Time Warner's Pathfinder site is on the list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided...
...Management, is responsible for marketing the Rev. King's writings and speeches. With Jones' help, King's relatives have made deals that could net them and their agents tens of millions of dollars: one deal with Hollywood conspiracist Oliver Stone for a film about the assassination; another with Time Warner, this magazine's owner, for a series of books and multimedia projects. Neither Pepper nor Jones wants the controversy about King's death to end. They've got an investment...
Bronfman says the company (and presumably his image) has turned the corner. The music division, led by bands such as No Doubt and the Wallflowers, is performing well, and Universal is exploring the purchase of EMI, the British music label. His investment in another media company, Time Warner (TIME's parent company), has paid off. In February, Bronfman sold 15 million Time Warner shares for $64.38 each, or about $965 million, nearly double what he paid for them. Universal expects to open new theme parks in Florida and Japan in the next few years. When it comes to movies, however...
...THEM EAT CAKE Lipitor, a cholesterol fighter developed by Warner-Lambert and marketed with Pfizer, roared out of the chute last year, the only Rx rookie to rack up $1 billion in first-year sales. Lipitor lowers cholesterol--and by extension the risk of heart attacks--by interfering with an enzyme that the liver uses to make cholesterol. Analysts expect sales to top $3 billion...
...What Starr wants to hear from Hubbell is some confirmation of his suspicion that the more than $700,000 in consulting fees paid to Hubbell by presidential supporters (including Time Warner) after he left Justice amounted to hush money designed to buy his silence on Whitewater. "Certainly, this reopens the question of whether there was something there," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "But there's certainly nothing wrong with helping a friend, and Hubbell was a powerful guy with connections to the President. And no one so far has been able to make the direct charge that there...