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...Chairman Carl Icahn, 50, the Manhattan-based corporate raider currently involved in an $8 billion takeover bid for Pittsburgh-based USX. The Washington Post last week quoted unnamed sources to the effect that Icahn and Boesky, who in 1985 owned more than 5% of Gulf & Western's stock, had collaborated to run up the price of those shares by fueling rumors that the company would be a takeover target. The two then sold their shares back to Gulf & Western for a profit. That ploy would have amounted to illegal stock manipulation. In a memorandum to his TWA staff, Icahn denounced...
...trying to eliminate the hassle and embarrassment involved in buying contraceptives," said Carl F. Graef, a co-founder of the budding firm. "Generally, our customers are just people who don't feel like going to the drugstore. Now they don't have to look the guy in the eye and say, 'I'd like a condom, please...
...church that for centuries had preached unambiguously that there was no salvation outside its walls. The astonishing variety of the invited group also raised suspicions among some Christians that Assisi represented a heretical step toward syncretism, the amalgamation of various conflicting religions. For this reason, U.S. Fundamentalist Gadfly Carl McIntire branded the meeting the "greatest single abomination in church history," and Catholic extremists in France passed out leaflets consigning John Paul to hell...
...feed on themselves. One sign of that is the phenomenal growth of the so-called junk-bond market, a $100 billion pool of high-risk, high- interest securities that have backed such takeover bids as Atlanta Broadcaster Ted Turner's $5 billion failed attempt to buy out CBS and Carl Icahn's successful $300 million takeover of TWA. The creation of such huge war chests for the use of takeover artists, among others, has heightened merger activity...
...Almost every top skater in the past 15 years has participated in our show--before and sometimes, after they became famous," says Carl D. Shannon '87, one of the show's chairmen...