However, Paramount does own distribution ( and other ancillary ) rights to the Soros / Dune films.

O ' Donnell, Slatkin, and other " angel investors " put up the initial startup capital and other investors soon followed, including Robert Kavner and Chip Lacy and then larger investors such as George Soros.

All indications were that the whole of DreamWorks — both live-comedy film and TV studios, albeit not the DreamWorks archive ( which was sold to a group led by George Soros in March 2006 ) nor the animated unit ( which was not part of the deal )— would remain owned by Viacom, even though CBS acquired Paramount's own TV studio.

This included setting up a partnership with George Soros, Lawrence Tisch and Michael Price along with investors such as Saudi Prince Al-Waleed to purchase a controlling stake in the Canary Wharf from the banks that made the original construction loans to Reichmann and which had taken control of the development.

As the deadline approached and it was becoming clear the unpaid signature gatherers were not on pace to qualify, a group of philanthropists, including George Soros, Peter Lewis, and George Zimmer, stepped in to pay for professional petition circulators through the Santa Monica, CA based political consulting firm of Zimmerman & Markman.

* Soros, through foundations and his Open Society Institutes, pours some $ 500 million per year into organizations in the former Soviet world ... And Soros gets results.

* New Chorus through Soros?

In 2005 she won a highly competitive Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to help support her graduate studies in law.

* Soros Senior Fellow, Rowntree Visionary ( 2005 )

Its projects include the creation of a network of modern neonatal centres throughout Ukraine, cooperation programs with the Clinton Global Initiative, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the ANTIAIDS Foundation of his wife Olena Pinchuk, the creation of the Kyiv School of Economics, a cooperation with the Aspen Institute, the opening of the first large scale contemporary art centre in Ukraine PinchukArtCentre, the creation and development of the only Ukrainian private chamber orchestra, the production and promotion of a film with Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine, human rights projects with George Soros and support of local Jewish communities.

Some critics have claimed that its BanksterUSA site has received $ 200, 000 in funding from the Open Society Institute, the charity with ties to investor George Soros, but its BanksterUSA project was not funded by OSI.

Also, in 1983 the San Francisco Moscow Teleport ( SFMT ) project was started by VNIIPAS and an American team which included George Soros.

The tumulus or burial mound ( Greek Τύμβος, tymbos, i. e. tomb ), also called the " Soros ," for the 192 Athenian dead that was erected near the battlefield remains a feature of the coastal plain.

The documentary was produced in association with the Center for Public Integrity, a group funded largely by billionaire George Soros.

It was established by an American philanthropist of Hungarian extraction, George Soros, and Polish democratic opposition leaders of the 1980s.

Open Society Institute was created in 1993 by investor George Soros to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

The United Kingdom entered the ERM in October 1990, but was forced to exit the programme within two years after the pound sterling came under major pressure from currency speculators, including George Soros.

The parallel with Yugoslavia was reinforced when it emerged that the Open Society Institute of George Soros had arranged contacts between the Georgian opposition and the Yugoslav Otpor ( Resistance ) movement, which had been instrumental in the toppling of Milošević.

A prominent critic on the global stage was George Soros, who compared Russian oligarchs with the American Robber Barons of late 19th century and blamed them for the failure of reforms in Russia.

The clash was precipitated by the privatization auction of the communication utility Svyazinvest, in which Onexim bank of Chubais ’ loyalist Vladimir Potanin, backed by George Soros, competed with Gusinsky, allied with Spanish Telefónica.

Tivadar Soros (; 1894 – 1968 ) was a Hungarian lawyer, author and editor.

The project was supported by grants from a number of sources including the Soros Foundation.

The radio station originally went on the air in 1989 with financial help from the Soros Foundation and USAID, though it was shut down by authorities a few times in its early years.

A computer center, which was established by the Soros international humanitarian organization and connected to the Internet, operates in the institute.

The group was primarily funded by insurance mogul Peter Lewis, currency trader George Soros, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.

Billionaire George Soros was among the largest donors to the Fund.

The expression " market fundamentalism " was popularized by business magnate and philanthropist George Soros in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism ( 1998 ), in which he writes " This idea was called laissez faire in the nineteenth century ...

Among all offshore funds over that same period, according to the database run by hedge fund observer Antoine Bernheim, the next-best performer was George Soros ’ Quantum Fund, with a 1, 710. 1 percent return.

As a consequence when the Macedonian State Archive displayed a photocopy of the book in cooperation with the Soros Foundation, the text on the cover was simply " Folk Songs ", compared to " Bulgarian Folk Songs " on the original one ( the upper part of the page showing " Bulgarian " has been cut off ).

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

In the most famous case of policy failure, Black Wednesday, George Soros arbitraged the pound sterling's relationship to the ECU and ( after making $ 2 billion himself and forcing the UK to spend over $ 8bn defending the pound ) forced it to abandon its policy.

Also, the Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and eastern Europe.

The most famous native speaker of Esperanto is businessman George Soros, son of Tivadar Soros, publisher and writer in Esperanto.

In 1993, at the invitation of Refugees International and sponsored by the Soros Foundation, she traveled to the war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina region of then-Yugoslavia in an effort to help bring more attention to the suffering there.

This has been expressed in non-mathematical terms by George Soros in his discussions of what he calls reflexivity of markets and their non-linear movement.

George Soros said in late October 1987, ' Mr. Robert Prechter's reversal proved to be the crack that started the avalanche '.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Introduced in 2008, the series has seen many prominent speakers such as George Soros, Thomas L. Friedman, Fareed Zakaria and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

In another well-referenced example, George Soros became notorious for " breaking the Bank of England " on Black Wednesday of 1992, when he sold short more than $ 10 billion worth of pounds sterling.

George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over US $ 1 billion profit by short selling sterling.

After the product's announcement, the company closed additional venture financing, including investments from Microsoft Corporation, Citicorp, Seagate Technology, Inc., Soros Capital, L. P., St. Paul Venture Capital and Times Mirror Company.