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Dell owns almost 20 percent of Dell Computer, while Gates owns 22 percent of Microsoft.
The pricing of magazines is difficult to decipher (it often, in fact, seems irrational), but it's unlikely that W's cover price is going to rise just because it's owned by the same company that owns Vogue .
It also owns Jiffy Lube--oil changes/motor oil; is that synergy or consolidation?
The only thing worse than a cacophony of special interests plastering their views all over the nation's airwaves and legislation is a single special interest that owns the ballot box--and knows how to make itself invisible.
Or an archaeologist in the Yucatan who flies her own plane and owns a supper club called The Fuzzy Slipper."