Word: broncs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bucking like a determined bronc, Texaco has been trying to throw Corporate Raider Carl Icahn off its back for the past six months. Now the company may finally have succeeded. Last week Icahn conceded that he had lost in a proxy vote of Texaco's 215,000 stockholders. The investors rejected his proposal to put himself and four associates on the oil company's 14-member board in a bid to force Texaco to consider his $60-a-share takeover offer. While the exact tally of the votes is likely to take several more weeks, Icahn figured that he narrowly...
...film's end the producers promise another episode: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League. Is it possible that this wild bronc ride of a movie can be popular enough to spawn a sequel? Watch the grosses, and the skies. -By Richard Corliss