Word: centralization
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...first task will probably be the hardest. In many ways, the pre-deal Time Warner was less an operating company than it was a stock price, the financial expression of a series of disconnected assets. Unlike other media megaliths like Disney or News Corp., where a nearly totemic central figure--Michael Eisner and Rupert Murdoch, respectively--conceives the strategy and orders it into place, Time Warner under Levin has been an extremely successful dysfunctional family. Six powerful executives, ranging from Roger Ames of the music group to Terry McGuirk of the Turner networks, run six huge businesses, and their rivalry...
Residents in this central Cambridge neighborhood have been in a number of heated debates with Harvard over its expansion plans...
Part of the problem has to do with the United States government's various security agencies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, among others, have held for years that allowing American companies to freely export cryptography capabilities (and to install better encryption systems at home) will greatly hinder the effectiveness of domestic and international crime-fighting operations. Their solution would be to mandate the use of "key escrow/recovery" encryption programs, whereby companies would be required to hand over their decoding sequences to a government agency, ostensibly to be used in case of investigation...
...theorists say the phenomenon explains the "la ni?as" of the past two winters, which begin when cold Pacific waters wash up on the shores of Central America. For the current year, meteorological predictions fall in line with this theory, as February forecasts call for an unusually cold and wet stretch for the northern states of the U.S., and warm, dry weather down south. But New Yorkers shouldn't buy that new down comforter just yet. The entire PDO theory is still fairly new (scientists first proposed it three years ago), and not even its supporters are fully convinced...
...tuned in in the first place simply because of all those zeroes the show gives away. "The drama on television at this point is so pitifully synthetic that the only real drama is on the quiz show," says Ben Stein, the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only for 5,000 bucks." On Greed, one contestant fainted. That's good television...