Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched his bid for Time Inc. He is fond of exhorting his employees to "lead, follow...
Davis still tells friends that Goldwyn never got his name straight, referring to him as "Marvin." That slight dogs the Paramount chief to this ( day: he is often confused with Marvin Davis, the Denver oilman who is making a bid for Northwest Airlines. As the struggle for control of Time Inc. heats up, Martin Davis' relative obscurity is likely...
...Communications is already the largest operator in the seven- year-old cellular-telephone business, controlling franchise areas with more than 50 million residents throughout 127 small and medium-size markets across the U.S. Last week the company sought to build up its metropolitan business by making a $5.9 billion bid for New York City's LIN Broadcasting, which reaches 18 million potential phone subscribers in such major cities as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas...
February 28: The women's ice hockey team receives its first-ever EAIAW playoff bid, but declines it the same day, protesting against prospective-opponent Potsdam State's entrance into the EAIAW the week before...
March 31: The men's hockey team loses out on its bid for an NCAA title, falling to Michigan St. in the semifinals...