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...
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I'm very pleased with how we are starting off the year 2000.
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(Executives) are focused on developing the new company's strategic and operating game plan, ... We are using these months well before the close of the transaction, to put the right plans in place.
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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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I'm like an object lesson. I'm a poster child for maybe where they should go. I'm holding out my hand.
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enough to validate the concept and to get us thinking about expansion.
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I want the poetry back in my life.
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the robust progress we've made in strengthening our balance sheet and creating significant value for our shareholders.
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Even with the small sample, it can have validity.
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I am pleased with our record operating results and strong EBITA growth rate of 12 percent for the first half of 2000, which puts us on track for another record-breaking year,
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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.