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...corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney and Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implied that I left "a slew of dubious new assets." The truth is that all the acquisitions under my leadership delivered the originally budgeted returns and Bertelsmann faced no write-off. You also wrote that Bertelsmann owner Reinhard Mohn "was so upset by Middelhoff's tenure." Our disagreement was primarily over my desire to make Bertelsmann a publicly held company, not about Bertelsmann's financial performance. Under my leadership, the company's revenue nearly doubled, the operating profit (EBITDA) more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...corporations that I know of. Companies like Time Warner, Disney or Vivendi Universal are paying this as annual interest. TIME implies that I left "a slew of dubious new assets." The truth is that all the acquisitions under my leadership delivered the originally budgeted returns and Bertelsmann faced no write-off. You also write that Bertelsmann owner Reinhard Mohn "was so upset by Middelhoff's tenure." Our disagreement was primarily over my desire to make Bertelsmann a publicly held company, not about Bertelsmann's financial performance. Under my leadership, the company's revenue nearly doubled, the operating profit (EBITDA) more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/6/2005 | See Source »

...change in the coming year, with Washington explaining more clearly to its partners how it will be assessing progress. (Hint to China: paying Pyongyang?again?just to show up won't count in the "success" column.) Don't be surprised if Washington publicly declares this diplomatic investment a write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Mr. Nice Guy | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...case $3,500 more than for a regular Escape, which looks nearly identical. In exchange, you get gas mileage that is nearly twice as good in the city (36 m.p.g. vs. 20 m.p.g.) and 6 m.p.g. better on the highway. And for now, you get a $1,500 tax write-off from Uncle Sam. Do the math, and you quickly realize that you still won't save money overall with a hybrid. But you will spend less time at the pump and drive the most fuel-efficient SUV in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Gas-Sipping SUV | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...that gets only 10 m.p.g. As might be expected, consumption rose 1.5 million bbl. a day over the past decade, to 8.8 million last year. But for owners of pricey vehicles like the Hummer, it keeps getting better. The tax-cutting bill signed into law in May expanded the write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. is Running Out of Energy. | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

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