Word: buyer
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...were John McKean, who lent Meese a total of $60,000 in two loans in June and December 1981, and became a member of the Postal Service board of governors on July 31, 1981; Thomas Barrack, who spent $70,000 of his own money to help Meese find a buyer for his California house in the summer of 1982 and became Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December 1982; Gordon Luce, chairman of Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, and Edwin Gray, a former senior vice president of the bank, which permitted Meese to fall 15 months...
When IBM introduced the PCjr last fall, it seemed to many industry observers that the personal-computer game was over. Initial buyer interest in the $1,269 machine was so feverish that sales of competing models slumped months before the so-called Peanut arrived at retail stores. Many dealers felt they would be selling PCjrs as fast as IBM could turn them out. "The market is voting with dollars," said David Wagman of Softsel, the country's largest independent software distributor. "And it's saying, 'IBM will be our standard...
...Thomas Barrack, a California real estate developer, who found a buyer for Meese's California house in the summer of 1982, lent $70,000 to a prospective purchaser and then forgave the loan. Barrack was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior in December...
...Mesa property and four on the McLean home. His bankers did not attempt to foreclose. In the meantime, White House Personnel Director E. Pendleton James phoned his longtime friend California Real Estate Developer Thomas Barrack and told him of Meese's predicament. Within weeks Barrack had found a buyer and arranged for bank financing. The final price, including an adjacent...
Gulf is entertaining offers because it is frantically seeking a buyer to save it from T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum. Although Pickens lost a proxy battle to gain control of Gulf in December, his group holds 13.2% of the oil company's stock. In addition, Pickens has offered to buy an additional 8.1% of Gulf for $65 a share in a tender offer that takes effect at midnight on March 21. If successful, he might go ahead with his plan for a drastic restructuring of the company...