Word: wunderkind
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When he became their boss, some wags at the Today show predictably dubbed him Miles Silverberg. Jeff Zucker, the 26-year-old wunderkind who was named Today's executive producer last December, just smiles at being compared to the frenetic, baby-faced producer on Murphy Brown. "I think Miles is more uptight than I am," he says...
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...independent entertainment companies, following the acquisition of A&M and Island Records. While the deal will give PolyGram a role in musical theater, some skeptics suggest that PolyGram paid a steep price for Really Useful, since the return on the investment depends on the West End wunderkind's future output. As for Lloyd Webber, the PolyGram millions will allow him to expand into film and TV, while settling most of the debt his company incurred when it went private...
Another problem that drove IBM and Apple into each other's arms is their growing friction with some powerful partners, most notably Microsoft, the suburban Seattle software giant run by wunderkind billionaire William Gates III. Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables...