Word: carles
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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...
...Saudi money would reduce Texaco's $10.4 billion debt and perhaps help ward off a takeover by Carl Icahn. In fact, the proposed pact was made public the day before Texaco stockholders met to vote on Icahn's bid to win five seats on its 14-member board, a crucial step toward a takeover. Counting of the ballots will not be finished for several weeks, but Icahn says he would not mind sharing Texaco with the Saudis...
...years Syndicated Columnist Carl T. Rowan has been an advocate of strict gun control. But when roused from sleep last week by what he believed was an intruder at the bedroom window of his Washington home, Rowan forgot his own counsel. After calling the police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser...
...books chronicle the tragic life and times of Anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. -- Columnist Carl Rowan takes a shot in the dark...
...crop in the northern Great Plains could be salvaged if rains come in the next week or two, but a large high-pressure ridge makes that unlikely. Crops are surviving now on moisture stored in the soil. "There's about two minutes left in the game," says County Agent Carl Wilbourn of Leflore County, Miss. "But there's still a chance...