Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reportedly preparing to do, on up to $8 billion in Texaco assets. With $3 billion already in reserve, Texaco no longer has to pay $630 million worth of annual interest on $7 billion in normal business debts. Nor is it required to pay dividends on 242.3 million outstanding common shares, an estimated saving this year of nearly $727 million...
What do Harvard, Yale and Wellesley have in common? Aside from ivied halls, all three schools are in the oil and gas business, along with Duke and the University of North Carolina. Together they have anted up nearly $100 million for wildcatting ventures, chiefly in the Gulf of Mexico...
...students attending the course shared one thing in common: a genuine desire to learn how to swing dance. But there the similarity stopped. Motives varied, skill varied as did personal style...
...most common theory, however, is that Buettner-Janusch was always slightly off balance. "He wasn't doing it for money, he was doing it for ego. This was just part of his megalomania. He thought he could do anything and get away with anything," says former NYU professor Charles Leslie...
...Vina Mallowitz, the daughter of a prominent New Orleans physician and herself a dedicated biochemist, Buettner-Janusch and his wife worked together both in the field--studying lemurs in Borneo and Madagascar--and in the laboratory. They enjoyed concerts and theater; one of Buettner-Janusch's common complaints about Duke was its isolated location...