Word: dealing
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...figure out how they all fit together. Last week's talk of a $35 billion purchase of Canada's Seagram by France's Vivendi represents the latest human attempt to make some of these pieces click into a seamless, revenue-generating new-economy Tinkertoy. The toy boys in this deal, Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier, 43, and Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., 45, can't resist the urge to merge Vivendi's telephone company, Internet provider and cable system with Seagram's Universal Studios and Universal Music Group...
...real convergence in this deal would be the alliance of Universal's vast film and recorded music holdings with Vivendi's sprawling Internet, pay-TV and software-publishing properties. Classics from Universal's library of 24,000 TV episodes and more than 3,000 films, including such blockbusters as E.T. and Jurassic Park, could run on Vivendi's majority-controlled Canal Plus subscription-TV service, the Continent's largest. And Seagram's Universal music group, currently the biggest on earth, could deliver Limp Bizkit and Sting to millions of European households via Vivendi's 50%-controlled Vizzavi Internet portal. Such...
...primarily a water-and-waste management operator--who needs that kind of boring stuff in the new economy? Since then, he has been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green-light Erin Brockovich Deux or make Enrique Iglesias available in MPtrois format...
...need a summer job. All you need is a soundbyte. You, however, deserve the real deal. I am essentially at the whim of my supervisor. For example, she told me that my first week should be spent getting to know all the ins and outs of the age-old online supermarket industry. On Monday, I toured the warehouse. Tuesday, I pack products in the dry goods section. Wednesday, packing in the fresh foods section. Thursday I tackle frozen goods. Friday I help deliver. (I guess that Friday will be really casual...
...presence so evident on Thursday night's execution coverage. That composed exterior may become quite familiar as the campaign wears on, says Professor Cal Jillson, chair of the Political Science Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. "The Bush staff is starting to get a handle on how to deal with these executions," he says. "On Thursday, everything about Bush was studied: His voice, his expression, his body language. He wants to communicate that he takes this issue very seriously...