The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has also purchased controlling interest in an Internet company, MediaTrip.com.
Comcast purchased controlling interests in E! Entertainment in 1997 and the Golf Channel in 2001.
Saint-Gobain bought American insulation manufacturer CertainTeed in 1988 and purchased controlling interests in American glass manufacturers Ball and Foster Forbes in 1995.
Rogers Communications agreed last month to purchase controlling interest in the Blue Jays, raising hopes that a new owner can rejuvenate a team that has fallen since winning the World Series in 1992 and '93.
Murdoch sold the station in 1979 to the head of Paramount Pictures' international distribution arm, Bruce Gordon, to purchase controlling interests in capital city stations TEN-10 Sydney and ATV-0 (now ATV-10) Melbourne.
Pope told me that George Soros had recently purchased control of all the voting machines in eighteen states.
During the last three years alone, after making bids, we have purchased outright or purchased control in XO Communications, for $500 million; Allegiance Telecom, for $670 million; Philip Services, for $170 million; the TransTexas Gas Corporation and Panaco Incc.
In the late 1970s Renault of France purchased control of American Motors, but a decade later and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, the French were forced to regress.
Jack, however, secretly organized a syndicate that purchased control of the company.
We purchased control small interfering RNA (siRNA), RelA siRNA, and p53 siRNA from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA).
