Gerald Levin
Gerald Levin
Gerald M. "Jerry" Levinis an American mass-media businessman. Levin is known for his involvement in brokering the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a merger which seemed to many to be disadvantageous to Time Warner as the bubble collapsed in the next few years...
cost growth healthy ongoing percent pro revenue strong
Our company's first-quarter growth was exceptionally strong through a healthy combination of 7 percent pro forma revenue growth and ongoing cost management,
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It was an unbelievable metaphysical experience. You're entering their world,
pleased starting year
I'm very pleased with how we are starting off the year 2000.
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Even with the small sample, it can have validity.
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...The issue of privacy is not for us simply as a matter of business practice. It's just fundamental to human dignity.
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The combination of AOL and Time Warner doesn't really hit any regulatory barriers and, certainly from my perspective, this is a compelling combination that actually has an opportunity on a worldwide basis to make a substantial contribution.
poetry
I want the poetry back in my life.
concept thinking validate
enough to validate the concept and to get us thinking about expansion.
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When I returned to work after the death of my son, Jon, in 1997, I had a special provision inserted in my employment agreement that allows me to choose not to fill out my term, ... I felt that once my work was completed and I was satisfied with the company's direction and progress, I'd invoke that provision... That time has arrived.
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We've declared openly that this is not about any exclusive arrangement with respect to content,
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...With respect to Time Warner cable systems, no preference will be show for affiliated services, soon-to-be AOL, as opposed to unaffiliated services, ... I would also say to you that there is no intention of flipping the coin, that the wonderfully diverse material coming from Time Warner will exclusively be coming through AOL.
capital digital invest
We are going to use our capital to invest in our own development of digital businesses,
close game plan slow sometime track
We are on track from every aspect. We don't see anything that should slow down our game plan to close (the merger) sometime in the fall.
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We are on track to close the merger this fall, and we will hit the ground running,