Word: carl
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...quintessential kiss-up, kick-down sort of guy." CARL FORD JR., former U.S. State Department intelligence chief, testifying in Senate hearings about the management style of John Bolton, nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations...
Corporate Raider Carl Icahn's usual strategy is to buy a stake in a target company and then sell out to another bidder at a huge profit. But this time the New York City financier may stick around and keep the business. Last week he gained virtual control of TWA, the sixth largest U.S. airline, by accumulating at least 45.5% of the company's stock. In the process Icahn may have defeated Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Texas Air and a rival bidder for TWA, with a series of intricate maneuvers worthy of the Navy's Blue Angels flying aces...
Only last June TWA's board tentatively accepted a $23-a-share takeover bid from Lorenzo to escape a previous $18-a-share offer by Icahn. In fact, TWA President Carl Meyer openly courted Lorenzo, fearing that Icahn might dismantle the company and sell its pieces for quick gain. After the TWA-Lorenzo deal, Wall Street expected Icahn to cash in his 35% stake and reap an estimated $50 million profit...
...wasn't my intention for him to do it as a film," recalls Nora Ephron, 44. "I just wanted him to read it." But Director Mike Nichols, 53, thought Heartburn, Ephron's best-selling novel that resembles the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein, 41, would make a good movie, and the rest, as they say, is history, or maybe her-story. Now filming in New York City, Heartburn stars Meryl Streep, 35, as the jilted cookbook writer, and Jack Nicholson, 48, as the man who gives her marital indigestion. Nicholson is replacing Mandy Patinkin...
...CARL LEVINGER Los Angeles...