Word: coniston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Air Lines, Hertz, and the Westin Hotels and Hilton International chains -- announced a ploy much like Harcourt's. The Allegis directors authorized a cash payment of $60 a share, worth some $3.5 billion. The move came two days after the New York City-based investment firm of Coniston Partners declared that it owned 13% of Allegis' shares and wanted to gain control of the 16- member board...
...scorned the company's name change, which is expected to cost UAL about $7.3 million. Allegis, Trump said, was "better suited to the next world-class disease." Along with the boyish billionaire, the Wall Street rumor mill named as possible UAL takeover partners the New York investment firm of Coniston Partners and the Chicago-based Pritzker family, which controls Braniff and owns 1% of UAL's shares...