Download or read book Stealing Time written by Alec Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's leading entertainment giant, the owner of such internationally renowned brands as Warner Bros., HBO, CNN, and Time magazine. But only three years later, nearly all the top executives behind the merger had resigned, the company had lost tens of billions of dollars in market value, and the U.S. government had begun two investigations into its business dealings. How did the deal of the century become an epic disaster? Alec Klein has covered AOL Time Warner for The Washington Post since the merger. His reporting on the company led to investigations by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In Stealing Time, he takes readers behind the scenes to show how a clash of cultures set the stage for a spectacular corporate collapse. AOL's Steve Case knew it was only a matter of time before the Internet bubble of the late 1990s would burst, grounding his high-flying company. His solution: Buy another company to keep his own aloft. Meanwhile, Time Warner's Jerry Levin was enamored of new technology but frustrated by his inability to push his far-flung media empire into the Internet age. AOL and Time Warner seemed like a perfect match. But the government forced the two companies to make concessions, and during the yearlong negotiations technology stocks tumbled. AOL executives lorded it over their Time Warner counterparts, who felt they were being acquired by brash, young interlopers with inflated dollars. The AOL way was fast, loose, and aggressive, and Time Warner executives -- schooled in more genteel business practices -- rebelled. In the midst of clashing cultures and conflicting management styles, AOL's business slowed and then stalled. Worse yet, AOL came under government scrutiny, and when the company conducted its own internal investigation, it admitted that it had improperly booked at least $190 million in revenue. The Time Warner rebellion gathered momentum. This is a riveting story of ambition, hubris, and greed set amid the boom-and-bust years of the technology bubble. It is filled with outsized personalities -- Steve Case, Jerry Levin, Bob Pittman, Ted Turner, and many more. Based on hundreds of confidential company documents and interviews with key players in this unfolding drama, Stealing Time is a fascinating tale of the swift rise and even swifter fall of AOL Time Warner.
Download or read book Stealing Time written by Monish Bhatia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys. This book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of legal and illegalised. It unearths the consequences of uncertainty and unknowing for people whose futures often lay in the hands of states, smugglers, traffickers and employers that pay little attention to the significance of individuals’ time and thus, by default, their very human existence. Overall, the collection draws perspectives from several disciplines and locations to advance knowledge on how temporal exclusion relates to social and personal processes of exclusion. It begins by conceptualising what we understand by ‘time’ and looks at how temporality and lived realities of time combine for people during and after processes of migration. As the book develops, focus is trained on temporality and survival during encampment, border transgression, everyday borders and hostility, detention, deportation and the temporal impacts of border deaths. This book both conceptualises and realises the lived experiences of time with regard to those who are afforded minimal autonomy over their own time: people living in and between borders.
Download or read book The Art of Stealing Time Time Thief 2 written by Katie Macalister and published by Keeper Shelf Books. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts in the art of stealing time, Travellers live on the edge of both mortal and immortal realms. But a few fight their outlaw instincts.… Gwenhwyfar Byron Owens learned everything she knows about potions and spells from her two Wiccan moms, who are forbidden by Otherworld laws from teaching magic to mortals. But when their latest transgression results in the kidnapping of a mortal woman, Gwen figures the only place to hide them all is in Anwyn, the Welsh afterlife.… But Gregory Faa—a member of the Watch—is hot on their heels. A Traveller who has stolen time, he’s eager to prove himself worthy of the Watch, only he has a past with the dark-eyed Welsh beauty he’s been charged with bringing to justice. He’s tempted to just let Gwen disappear into Anwyn, until he realizes that she’s being pursued by a squad of goons and death’s minions. Gwen is used to taking care of her moms and herself, so she can’t give in to her heart’s demand to trust Gregory, despite the fact that he’s as handsome as the day is long—and the days in Anwyn can last centuries…
Download or read book Stealing Time written by Rebecca Bowyer and published by Story Addict Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They'll kill to get more time. She'll die to stop them. In a world where each person's life span is limited by law, time is a lucrative commodity that some people will do anything to get more of. Fourth-dimension physicist, Dr Varya Galanos, invented the technology that time thieves used to murder children by stealing their remaining years of life. Although it was destroyed 10 years ago, and the thieves brought to justice, she still suffers from the burden of guilt. Masquerading as a lowly lab technician at the Minor Miracles Foundation, Varya finds a certain peace searching for cures for rare childhood diseases, like the one which took her 4-year-old son, Kir, away from her. The Foundation is secretly funded by Varya and her employee and confidante, Marisa Volkov, by selling illicit time tabs to wealthy patrons. When dissolved on the tongue, a single time tab grants a person four extra hours in their day. The time tab technology is highly valued – and highly illegal – in a society where Time Chips are inserted into each child's brain stem at birth. Lives are limited to just sixty-five years to conserve the planet's ever-dwindling resources. Varya's tenuous peace is shattered when children start disappearing again. She fears the worst – that the time thieves have returned and have somehow resurrected the technology to steal precious years from children. Varya is the only one who can find a way to reverse the time drains and save the returned children. But doing so could cost the lives of those she holds dearest. When her best friend's son becomes a victim, returned with just hours to live, she is faced with an impossible choice. "An intriguing and well written time-bending mystery that explores motherhood and medical disparity in an ageist dystopia." ~ Melissa Ferguson, author of The Shining Wall "Brilliantly written, lots of twists, turns, surprises, and a perfect ending!" ~ Jeanz Book Read'n'Review "I plowed through this book in two days and was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Great job!" ~ Book Grrl
Download or read book Stealing Time written by Anne Dublin and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonah Wiley is having a hard enough time adjusting to his parents' divorce, and when his mom goes to a conference — leaving him with his dad and stepmother — it only makes things worse. Now thanks to a strange pocket watch he and his stepbrother are trapped in time, racing to overcome tough challenges in order to get home.
Download or read book Stealing the Sword written by Wendy Mass and published by Time Jumpers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the King--and pursued by a strange man whom they first saw at the flea market, who is after their suitcase.
Download or read book Stealing Rembrandts written by Anthony M. Amore and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg's Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves - even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces. Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.
Download or read book The Incident Report Fired On My Day Off For Stealing Time written by Willie HavMmeri and published by Word Overdose Publications. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African American Male attempted to have an investigation opened up into his Department’s shady practices. He followed chain of command and sent a formal complaint to his immediate supervisor. He asked that NO ONE in the work environment be punished at the end of the investigation and that EVERYONE receive additional training. Instead of his claims being investigated by the company, the African American Male was removed from the workplace with such speed that the company couldn’t even get the facts straight as to why he was being fired. Till this day, no one can even explain why this African American Male, being the only such person of his distinction in his immediate work environment and with an exemplary record before termination, was investigated in the first place. I mean DAYYUM… WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS GRIEVANCE!?
Download or read book Stealing Time written by Nicky Edwards and published by Only Women Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London squatters and one very clever teenager mastermind corporate fraud.
Download or read book Don Quixote U S A written by Richard Powell and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1966 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insignificant Peace Corps man, sent to promote banana culture on a Caribbean island, rises to great heights of public favor despite being trapped between two conflicting factions.
Download or read book Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies written by and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's everything you need to know about how business really operates courtesy of Dogbert.
Download or read book Steal This Book written by Abbie Hoffman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook of survival and warfare for the citizens of Woodstock Nation A classic of counterculture literature and one of the most influential--and controversial--documents of the twentieth century, Steal This Book is as valuable today as the day it was published. It has been in print continuously for more than four decades, and it has educated and inspired countless thousands of young activists. Conceived as an instruction manual for radical social change, Steal This Book is divided into three sections--Survive! Fight! and Liberate! Ever wonder how to start a guerilla radio station? Or maybe you want to brush up on your shoplifting techniques. Perhaps you're just looking for the best free entertainment in New York City. (The Frick Collection--"Great when you're stoned.") Packed with information, advice, and Abbie's unique outlaw wisdom ("Avoid all needle drugs--the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."), Steal This Book is a timeless reminder that, no matter what the struggle, freedom is always worth fighting for. "All Power to the Imagination was his credo. Abbie was the best."--Studs Terkel
Download or read book Momo written by Michael and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neverending Story is Michael Ende’s best-known book, but Momo—published six years earlier—is the all-ages fantasy novel that first won him wide acclaim. After the sweet-talking gray men come to town, life becomes terminally efficient. Can Momo, a young orphan girl blessed with the gift of listening, vanquish the ashen-faced time thieves before joy vanishes forever? With gorgeous new drawings by Marcel Dzama and a new translation from the German by Lucas Zwirner, this all-new 40th anniversary edition celebrates the book’s first U.S. publication in over 25 years.
Download or read book Analytical Psychology written by Michael Fordham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of two parts: the first focuses on theoretical concepts with special reference to the structure of the psyche, while the second includes more clinical material. Both exemplify the London Society's interest in childhood and the development of ideas about the use of reductive analysis within the Jungian framework.
Download or read book Take a Shower Show Up on Time and Don t Steal Anything written by Dave Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect manual on how to be an adult. Filled with pearls of wisdom that will save you from catching a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease, this is a book that every twenty-something should swear by, and every fifty-something should keep close.
Download or read book Stealing the General written by Russell S. Bonds and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1862, 20 Union soldiers crossed Confederate lines to steal a locomotive called the General and destroy a critical Confederate supply line. In the aftermath half the team was executed; the half that escaped received the newly established Medal of Honor. -- publishers description.
Download or read book Corporate Time Theft written by Grace Chandy and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people are watching or checking, and few businesses do anything about time theft in their organizations—even though everyone knows it is both wrong and ubiquitous. The truth is you may be losing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dollars because of time theft. The typical employee steals about two hours of time each day, which means you're losing five hundred hours of work over fifty weeks. If an employee earns $20 per hour, that means he or she could be stealing $10,000 from you every year. Start hitting your projections, and keep your employees on task with this profit-building guidebook. You can learn how to reduce and even eliminate improper Internet usage, texting at work, and the transaction of personal business on company time. Time is money, and stealing it is no different than taking products or cash. Recognize the problem, and use simple and proven strategies to prevent and control Corporate Time Theft.
