claim: Live Nation Entertainment formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 1999.
evidence: Stephen Joshua Solarz -LRB- -LSB- ˈsoʊlɑrz -RSB- September 12 , 1940 -- November 29 , 2010 -RRB- was a United States Congressional Representative from New York .. New York. New York ( state ). Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan 's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a cosponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush .. Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan. deployment of Marines. Lebanese Civil War#International intervention : 1981–84. Lebanon. Lebanon. Gulf War. Gulf War. George H. W. Bush. George H. W. Bush