Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...illuminating discussion with asoap opera producer as a sign that he needed toleave the business. When the producer asked him ifhe had enjoyed the show they had worked togetheron the previous day, Myhrum responded that whilehe enjoyed the people and the process "youcouldn't pay me enough to watch it." It was thenthat he realized it was time to leave...
...Gore denounced him as "an incurable patsy." But after Clinton was elected President, he came under the same pressure from business leaders, who argued that the export controls endangered America's telecommunications primacy. Clinton began signing the same waivers (there have been 11 on his watch). In 1996, an American company, Loral Space & Communications, used a waiver to export a $200 million satellite that was destroyed when the Chinese rocket carrying it into space exploded. In the aftermath, Loral and another firm, Hughes Electronic Corp., gave information to the Chinese that, according to the Pentagon, may have helped China hone...
...those s.o.b.s get to watch and wait, just like the rest of us. In this era of megamergers, Joel Klein already has plenty of antitrust enforcement on his plate. Last week he announced his intention to fight a proposed partnership between American Airlines and British Airways; the DOJ's case against the proposed merger of Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman also begins this September; and the chipmaker Intel is said be next in the cross hairs of his colleagues over at the FTC. But the resolute Klein seems determined to make Gates a test case for reinterpreting the 19th century...
...RETURN OF...DI-PLOITATION WATCH...
...almost harmonic convergence: a Di-Ploitation Watch item that's also a Feud of the Week! Last Monday Princess Diana's estate and memorial fund filed suit against the Franklin Mint, which began selling porcelain dolls, plates, pennants and rings within days of Di's death. The suit claims that the Mint was denied permission to produce these keepsakes and that despite claims of giving all the proceeds to the Diana, Princess of Wales' Charities, it has "never donated a penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake...