Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14 hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another seven years...
Ewing said that the firm has "an agreement ofconfidentiality" with those who take its tests."If a student has gotten a score fraudulently, weconsider that a matter between us and thestudent," he said. "We don't consider ourselves alaw enforcement agency...
...such controversy was Harvard's investment in Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, which took over RJR-Nabisco this fall in a leveraged buyout. Under the conditions of Harvard's agreement with KKR, the University did not have the right to refuse participation in the buyout or investment in RJR-Nabisco...
...part of the agreement between MSP and theHarvard body that will moniter the profit-makingcompany, the University will only agree to housethe research "where there is overlap" of thosefinancial and scientific interests, Scott said...
...rhetoric, the Reagan Administration's policy was entirely geared to overthrowing the Sandinista regime. Put simply, it made no sense to negotiate with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas when the only deal the U.S. wanted was their abdication. And besides, they couldn't be trusted to live up to any agreement. Eight years, $250 million and one contra % army later, the Sandinistas are still in power. It was one of Reagan's starkest foreign policy failures, producing neither a military victory nor a diplomatic breakthrough...