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...ethical profiles of the 20 companies, which include Merril Lynch, Paine Webber and Exxon, were compiliedfrom information the companies provided and fromother sources, including the liberal Mother Jonesmagazine and consumer protection mogul RalphNader...
Along with the takeover tussles come some new stock offerings. The most unusual is the creation of Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, 37, the author of hit musicals, including Cats and Evita. Last week it was announced that early next year investment bankers at Schroder Wagg will offer to the public shares in Lloyd Webber's company, called Really Useful. Last year the firm had pre-tax profits of $3.1 million, and it owns the rights to everything Lloyd Webber has written since 1978. Stockholders will get a share of royalties each time an elevator plays a Muzak-treated tune from...
...LONG TIME AGO, when even the brightest among us were cruising in our Big Wheels, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a musical that was fun. They had not yet developed the bombastic politics accompanied by loud orchestration of an Evita, or the overproduced, overscored musical juggernaut style of a Cats. Instead, they wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a play designed to be performed at junior high schools, and be enjoyed by all. Despite its biblical story, Joseph bears little resemblence to his big brother Jesus Christ, Superstar, except for the scene in Superstar when the wacky...
...last year. An FCC ruling last April is particularly encouraging to Murdoch and other operators of independent TV chains: it allows an individual or company to own as many as twelve independent stations, up from seven. Predicts Lee Isgur, who follows the entertainment industry for the investment firm Paine Webber: "Murdoch will buy more stations as soon as he can finance them...
...aspiring executives began the road toward Goldman Sachs and Paine Webber in October of 1982, when a former resident tutor in Quincy decided to speculate in stocks and encourage others to join...