Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: It's the gift that keeps on giving: Ted Turner is not just donating $1 billion to the United Nations, he's planning to solicit more huge charitable contributions from his moneyed peers. The CNN founder and vice chairman of Time Warner (which owns TIME) brought tears to the eyes of wife Jane Fonda when he announced the gargantuan gift ? which he will make in 10 annual payments of $100 million in Time Warner stock ? to support programs such as UNICEF, peace-keeping missions and a land-mine cleanup...
...amount is based on Turner's personal profits on Time Warner stock since the corporation merged with CNN parent Turner Broadcasting last year. "I figure its only nine months' earnings, who cares?" Turner said. He also promised to prod similar donations from other billionaires, warning that they should expect his fund-raising calls...
...offers me, of all things, a job at Dysson and guides me to its Website www.dysson.com) which is written in creepy corporate prose and looks just as one would expect a "global telecommuting consortium" to look, complete with geeky employee photos and a client list that includes Time Warner, the parent company of this magazine. I hear from an anonymous employee. "Don't let them snow you," he or she writes. "Denny was no suicide...
RUPERT MURDOCH In game of cable chicken, gets Fox on Time Warner...
...British castle. Unlike Bolton, Travolta is no novice, having already penned articles for Esquire and Rolling Stone. His book, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, which he calls "fifty-fifty autobiographical," was written in 1992 for his son Jett, illustrated by Travolta and self-published for 75 friends and family. Warner Books, which, like many publishers, seems to find nothing sadder than an unpublished celeb, snapped it up and will print 250,000 more copies this October...