Word: boxes
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...Texas oilman has reaped his vast payoffs through the mastery of the takeover battle, a colorful form of corporate warfare fought with dollars, stock and shareholder votes. The campaigns are as vivid as the terminology of their tactics (see box). A takeover raider typically launches his attack by buying a significant percentage of a firm's stock and offering to pay other shareholders more than the current market level for their securities. The goal is to get enough shares--typically 51%--to win control of the company and the ability to run it. Management and the raider frequently get into...
...liquor wagon." All day he will ride through the country collecting chickens, rice and vegetables for a gumbo the womenfolk will cook back in town. The column will be halted frequently for beer and boiled eggs. A Cajun band on a wagon, relying heavily on fiddle, washboard, squeeze-box, guitar and triangle, will serenade him on the 15-mile ride. He will be accompanied by two "floats," unadorned flatbed trailers bearing 40 or so supportive drunks. Half a dozen adult men, charged with maintaining order, will remain sober. By noon the horses will be lathered, and many of the riders...
...theater. Now they have more space to show off pictures of such former Second Citizens as John Belushi, Joan Rivers, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray. Other alumni, including Alan Arkin, Robert Klein and David Steinberg, were back in person recently for an anniversary reunion, which was taped by Home Box Office for airing in April. And in the world beyond, a Second City troupe is established in Toronto, touring companies are on the road, and SCTV is in reruns on the tube, still biting the hand that feeds...
Cyndi Lauper is the manic outsider in every high school class - brassy and sensitive, dippy and shrewd - whose hair seems to have been colored by a box of melted Crayolas and who dresses in the kinds of duds gypsies might wear if they had proms. Part Piaf, part Little Peggy March, she also has a razzle- dazzle, multi-octave range, a voice that can coax a broken promise out of a ballad or pin a rocker right to the mat. She has the whole package. But Madonna has the look...