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In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Guardian | Handful of women crack glass ceiling
She took home £1.14m after taking advantage of the drugs company's rapid expansion to cash in £822,000 of share options.
Ms Ward, a divorcee with three children, was based at CMG's Amsterdam premises but has a second home in the Caribbean.
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch, received a £175,000 bonus to go with her £300,000 salary before quitting as head of programming at BSkyB to set up her own production firm.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4246767-103676,00.html   (883 words)

  
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As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch (Kate Winslet/Judi Dench) meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley (Hugh Bonneville/Jim Broadbent), a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife.
These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her.
Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.
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 Rupert Murdoch . Australia . The Independent . 1985 . DirecTV Group . China . Cato Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1985 Murdoch became a naturalized citizen of the United States to satisfy the legal requirement that only United States citizens could own American television stations.
Much of this debt came from his British-based BSkyB satellite network, which incurred massive losses in its early years of operation, which in his customary manner he heavily subsidised with profits from his other holdings until he was able to drive his main competitor out of business.
It further reported, after an examination of what was available of the accounts, that Murdoch would normally have expected to pay a corporate tax of approximately $350 million.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Rupert_Murdoch   (944 words)

  
 "S" Famous People
Schumann, Elisabeth (1885-1952) Operatic soprano and Lieder singer, born in Merseburg...
Schwarzkopf, (Olga Maria) Elisabeth (Friederike) (1915-) Soprano, born in Janotschin, C Poland.
Söderström, Elisabeth (Anna) (1927-) Soprano, born in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.jonathanselby.com /Sfam   (17397 words)

  
 Li Ka Shing . Rupert Murdoch . People's Republic of China . 1940 . Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) . People's Liberation ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Li is considered to be one of the most powerful figures in Asia and was named "Asia s Most Powerful Man" by AsiaWeek in 2000.
In 1961 he married an employee, journalist Anna Murdoch.
They had three children, Elisabeth Murdoch businesswoman Elisabeth now prominent in...
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Li_Ka_Shing   (538 words)

  
 Guardian | New leader in top rank of women
Today, she will be named as the most influential businesswoman in Europe.
Elisabeth Murdoch and Marina Berlusconi - daughters of two of the world's biggest media moguls, also make the list, along with Marianne Nivert, the president and chief executive of Telia, Sweden's equivalent of BT, and Anne Lauvergeon, the chief executive of French nuclear reprocessing and recycling group Cogema.
But for those who know her, the recognition is just another step in the seemingly relentless rise of the woman who has come to symbolise a new breed of dot.com wunderkinds.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4144286-103691,00.html   (1330 words)

  
 The iVillage Top 20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As daughter of the world's most powerful media baron Elisabeth Murdoch has become a force to reckon with in her own right.
She is BBC1’s 'Skinny Controller', the pint-sized mother of two who controls the popular channel and therefore the biggest audience share on the box.
The wife of Chancellor Gordon Brown, Sarah Macaulay is a shrewd businesswoman and spinner.
www.ivillage.co.uk /print/0,,178993,00.html   (328 words)

  
 CHINA
Beijing also trumpets its protection of women and children's rights, after a much publicized explosion at a school in Jiangxi province where children were illegally making firecrackers caused the deaths of some 42 people.
Efforts to establish schools for Uighur children led to the arrest of a prominent Uighur businesswoman, and Tibetan cultural institutions are under constant surveillance from state authorities but the Chinese report stresses government protection of minorities, it said.
Murdoch said this week he was "excited" to be involved with China Netcom
hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/china.articles_oct-april.htm   (12441 words)

  
 Divorce-Online - News Archive
Anna Murdoch, called Anna Mann since her 1999 marriage to American financier William Mann, said it was Rupert Murdoch's affair with Chinese-born Wendi Deng that led to their separation in 1998.
She also described the change in her former husband, which ultimately led to the disintigration of their marriage, saying he refused to slow down, to settle in one place, or to release his children from the huge expectations he had placed on them.
A cold blooded businesswoman who had her lover executed so he would not get his hands on her cash was jailed for life yesterday.
www.divorce-online.co.uk /news/newsroom.asp?Month=7&Year=2001&Section=All&Keyword=   (22372 words)

  
 07-23-2002
- The Downing Street Memos...are Bush's Watergate!!!: 2005-06-12
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Blackburn, a businesswoman, is on trial for refusing to pay her income-tax in protest against the war.
Elisabeth Bumiller writes in the New York Times: "It's a long way from sharing a one-bedroom garage apartment as hard-partying bachelors in Houston to welcoming prime ministers to the Oval Office.
On May 2, the day after the story hit Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times, the New York Times dealt with the memo in a dispatch from London on the final days of Blair’s re-election campaign, beginning in the 10th paragraph.
07-23-2002.blogspot.com /2005_06_12_07-23-2002_archive.html   (11662 words)

  
 Women who mean business - NewBusiness
They include Elisabeth Murdoch, 31, daughter of media tycoon Rupert, who left her father’s company to set up her own business - without any funding from Dad.
Nikki Beckett, 38, who set up computer business NSB when her husband was made redundant six years ago, is another startling success story.
She has now amassed a personal fortune of £100 million and this year won the Veuve Cliquot businesswoman of the year award.
www.newbusiness.co.uk /content/131/article.htm   (586 words)

  
 Marcia Pally - Cultural Satires 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Indeed, 40% of all American hotel rooms (1.5 million) are equipped with sex channels patronized by at least half of all guests, yielding $190 million a year, or more bucks than all the MandMs and mini-Bacardi bottles in all the mini-bars in the country bring in.
The bus's destination is technically Elisabeth, N.J. because someone noticed the illegality of a public bus service operating a bus line for a private enterprise.
But no one in N.Y. knows where Elisabeth, N.J. is and the bus in fact stops in the Ikea parking lot, which may be all of Elisabeth that there is (unless she is also a combination kitchen cabinet and Arbeitsflaeche).
www.marciapally.com /satire00.html   (10515 words)

  
 Business Celebrities & Politicians in Notting Hill
Notting Hill businesswoman Philippa Rose has made it into this year's Sunday Times Rich List...
She met Elkin Pianim, the son of a Ghanaian politician.
They had a baby, Cornelia, and, two weeks after the birth, Elisabeth returned to work and sold her television companies for a profit of 12 million dollars...
www.portowebbo.co.uk /nottinghilltv/celebs-list-business.htm   (720 words)

  
 COMEDY (2) More Vintage Comedy Videos
British army general is close to retiring, but is short of funds to buy a retirement cottage, so when he leaves on business, his wife and servants concoct a plan to make the extra money.
Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart, Felix Aylmer, Mackenzie Ward.
Independant businesswoman takes a vow of celibacy, but is tested by a young man from Bali.
www.ebonyshowcase.org /comedy2.htm   (9847 words)

  
 dowjones.com Press Release: The Wall Street Journal Ranks the World’s Top 50 Female Executives
in Its Inaugural ...
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When she first founded a company to sell luxury goods in South Korea in 1990, her biggest problem was not uncooperative suppliers or restrictive government regulations-it was family opposition to her desire to be a businesswoman.
And in third place in "The Owners" listing is Fredy Bush, who persuaded Xinhua News Agency, Beijing's official wire service, to grant her and her partners what amounted to a 20-year monopoly on its market data with exclusive distribution rights outside China.
Elisabeth Murdoch, chairman and chief executive, Shine Ltd.
www.djns.com /Pressroom/PressReleases/Other/Asia/2004/1108_Asia_TheAsianWallStreetJournal_2327.htm   (2106 words)

  
 Summit Participants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Janice Besch Minson is currently responsible for regional arts development and inter-governmental relations at the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.
Full time Member of the Native Title Tribunal, and Chancellor of Murdoch University, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1997.
She was awarded the title of Victorian and National Indigenous Businesswoman of the Year 1993/94 and inducted into the Australian Businesswomen's Network Businesswomen's Hall of Fame in 1998.
www.dotrs.gov.au /regional/summit/program/partic/participants.aspx   (3761 words)

  
 Lead News Stories from the Gay People's Chronicle
Masters, a Nashville, Tennessee businesswoman who has been in entertainment marketing for the past 25 years, formed the NWFL last August.
Lisa Lindgren plays Elisabeth, a battered woman who movingly comes to terms with her feminism, her motherhood and her sexuality.
Dame Judy Dench turns in a masterful performance in the recently-released Iris, as famed writer Iris Murdoch whose sexual shenanigans, some with women, are legendary as is her eventual struggle with Alzheimer’s.
www.gaypeopleschronicle.com /stories02/02jan4.htm   (7364 words)

  
 NSW Legislative Council Hansard Full Day Transcript
As a result of Murdoch trying to highjack the game, the Manly-Warringah Rugby League Football Club, like other ARL football clubs, was forced into a position of competing for player services at inflated prices and naturally the costs of operating a football side have escalated accordingly.
Elisabeth Kirkby asked me a question without notice regarding the Committee on the Office of the Ombudsman and the Police Integrity Commission.
Elisabeth Kirkby asked me a question without notice regarding electoral redistribution.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /Prod/Parlment/HansTrans.nsf/all/CA256D110020B6CD4A2564B9007D34CA   (17922 words)

  
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Water BR 9840 by Sue Thomas 2 volumes Professor Ruth Murdoch's husband, Simon, left her for another woman when their daughter, Julie, was three.
The Silent Suitor BR 9896 by Elisabeth Fairchild 2 volumes Miss Sarah Wilkes Lyndle's mother died from a feverish malaise when Sarah was still quite young.
A Time for Love BR 9894 by Constance O'Day-Flannery 3 volumes In the dentist's chair with her mind clouded by laughing gas, businesswoman Elle Mackenzie is suddenly transported back to 1876.
www.loc.gov /nls/catalogs/braille/1995-1996/fiction.txt   (23842 words)

  
 WHAT'S NEW - October 2004!
The voice cast includes Lupe Ontiveros as the twins' grandmother, Elisabeth Pena as their mother, Erik Estrada as the friendly mailman and Lucy Liu as their outspoken friend.
We are happy to announce that the Phoenix Suns and Yuta Tabuse have signed a contract." In a shrunken NBA world, where it's no longer a big deal to see players from China, Poland or Africa, few players can be considered exotic any more.
JULIE SA This 53-year-old California businesswoman and former mayor of Fullerton is being widely touted in the South Korean media as the front-runner to head a special economic zone in Sinuiju, a Yalu River port.
us_asians.tripod.com /new-04-10.html   (4972 words)

  
 Fact-esque, A Reality-Based Blog: General Media Watch
Leung was a prominent businesswoman and political fund-raiser among Chinese-Americans in Southern California.
As Atrios has been saying, the corporate press is completely in the tank on this latest BushCo disaster just as they were in the run up to the war.
Two years from now maybe Elisabeth Bumiller will try to tell us that it wasn't the press' job to stop the looting of Social Security.
casadelogo.typepad.com /factesque/general_media_watch   (10987 words)

  
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In her 60-year career, Katharine Hepburn played smart, muscular, independent women, from lawyers and journalists to athletes and matriarchs.
She was an innovative businesswoman who took charge of her career at a time when she was labeled "box-office poison."
In her personal life, she had a long affair with a married man. She was an outspoken advocate of birth control.
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 Women for an Australian Republic News 1999
8 November: Janet Holmes a Court, businesswoman and prominent campaigner in favour of the republic said in Perth that the change required to shift to a direct election model was huge and would be difficult to achieve.
She also said that the nation had foregone a great opportunity at the referendum, adding that she was very disappointed with the result.
Top of the list is Elisabeth Murdoch, 31 year old managing director of satellite TV company, Sky Networks - see how many you recognise in the BBC's report at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_466000/466518.stm
www.womenrep.netspeed.com.au /news1999.htm   (9530 words)

  
 Calvert-Jones, Elisabeth (Janet) - Australian Women Biographical entry
The youngest child of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (q.v.) and Sir Keith Murdoch, Janet (as she is more commonly known) Calvert-Jones follows the family tradition, established by both her parents of being involved in business as well as philanthropy.
Since 1988 she has been a director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, of which her mother is patron.
In 1989, Janet Calvert-Jones became chairman of The Herald and Weekly Times Limited, a company previously led by her father (1929-1952).
www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE0427b.htm   (214 words)

  
 Will Women Break The Glass Ceiling In Europe?
With membership based on a complicated reference system, codes of etiquette and age-old traditions, the average businesswoman would struggle to become a member on an equal footing.
Elsewhere, Dame Marjorie Scardino earned £883,000 running the Pearson publishing empire; Elisabeth Murdoch took in £475,000 before quitting as head of BSkyB programming; and Victoria Hull of Telewest was paid £683,000 before leaving.
Of course only a few women have the opportunity to work at these rarefied levels, but clear signs of change are also in evidence among the rank and file.
www.easyjetinflight.com /features/2003/dec/debate.html   (1773 words)

  
 UK TV Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BA and Murdoch run into a lynch mob when they go to a small town to look for a missing precious-metals expert.
Testing the latest models and casting an experienced eye over the hottest motoring news, the `Top Gear' team present a specially extended edition of their show exclusively for UK Horizons viewers, featuring extra information, interviews and consumer tips.
Her assistant Bubble turns into a businesswoman, her daughter Saffron discovers boys, and Edina herself contemplates adopting Romanian orphans.
uktv.tv /2002/06/01   (9582 words)

  
 Daily Sally: May 2005
Apparently scientists and anthropologists have spent the past 74 years studying human and primate sex drives-including the female orgasm-from a strictly evolutionary standpoint.
Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University philosopher of science and professor of biology, has reviewed that extensive research.
And in her new book concludes none of it can substantiate the claim that female orgasm has any value in the perpetuation of the species.
dailysally.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_dailysally_archive.html   (9747 words)

  
 MACCA-News: Heather attends "Girl Power" luncheon with the Queen - Mar. 11, 2004 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Supermodel Kate Moss, who was wearing a royal blue dress which matched the monarch's outfit, chatted to the Queen alongside Rowling, Church and Mills McCartney.
Others at the Palace included comic Jennifer Saunders, opera singer Lesley Garrett, equal rights campaigner Dr Doreen Lawrence, writer Zadie Smith and businesswoman Elisabeth Murdoch.
Also there was Hannah Dadds, the first woman to become a Tube train driver, and domestic violence refuge founder Erin Pizzey.
www.macca-central.com /macca-news/morenews.cfm?ID=1486   (1465 words)

  
 Alphabetical list of authors
The use of the Internet in Government Libraries: The Case of Turkey.
Douglas Anderson, Robert Newton, John W. Murdoch, Douglas Anderson:
From librarian to information manager - Two years of experience as independent businesswoman.
www.ifla.org /VII/d2/inspel/author.htm   (1956 words)

  
 Socialism in an Age of Waiting (SIAW)
Eisenmenger was also responsible for creating the European Union flag and for designing the CE consumer goods quality control symbol.
A few days ago Eisenmenger got his first look at the new currency when Mechthild delivered an introductory pack of euro coins to her husband, who is confined to a wheelchair in the St Elisabeth retirement home in Eislingen, southern Germany, and can no longer feed himself after a fall a year ago.
It hardly seems worth keeping up what remains of the boycott, when Murdoch has clearly never been affected by it in the slightest, and the rest of the British media have long since sunk to his level or even lower.
marxist-org-uk.blogspot.com /2004_10_01_marxist-org-uk_archive.html   (13301 words)

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