FORTUNE's annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen
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Rank: 16
(2004 Rank: 18)
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Walt Disney
Burbank
Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television
DIS
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| Talk about an extreme makeover. Sweeney has been on the job for only 19 months, but she has taken fourth-place ABC and propelled it to early wins among viewers ages 18 to 49. Runaway hits like Lost and Desperate Housewives stuffed ABC's coffers with $2.7 billion worth of upfront ads, $600 million more than last year. |
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From the November 14, 2005 issue
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| Highest pay |
| These women are among the highest paid in corporate America. All of them are employed by companies with over $1 billion in sales that filed proxies by September 1, 2005. |
| Young and powerful |
| Newcomer Charlene Begley heads up GE's plastics division and is the youngest of this group at age 39. She bumped last year's youngest gun, Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck, now 40. But, on average, the Power 50 are in their late 40s. |
| Perennial powers |
| These women have been on the Power 50 each year since it began in 1998. |
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