Word: coups
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...battle for control of Paramount. Reinforced by Blockbuster's huge cash hoard and rock-solid balance sheets, he immediately upped his offer for Paramount by $1.2 billion. "It may not be the knockout blow," said an obviously pleased Redstone, "but from our standpoint it is an extremely dramatic coup." Both Redstone and Huizenga insisted that the merger had been in the works for months and would go forward whether or not the company gained control of Paramount...
Dramatic it was, beyond doubt. But a coup? Even as Redstone and Huizenga ( were basking in the glow of their new partnership, Wall Street was scratching its head in amazement at both the merger and the apparent meagerness of the new offer. After two weeks of furious negotiations and consultations with a team of investment bankers from Morgan Stanley, Redstone had produced a bid that was considered by many analysts to be not only anticlimactic but also inferior to Diller's current offer. Though the offer is a complex blend of stock and cash, the estimated value of the Viacom...
...stars and add a big new one. Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander are back as Damiel and Cassiel, the angels come to Earth. Peter Falk returns as an ex-angel, and Solveig Dommartin as the trapeze artist who'll meet any heavenly body halfway. But here's a casting coup: Mikhail Gorbachev as himself. He sits at a desk, pondering the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. "I'm sure that a secure world can't be built on blood, only on harmony," opines the former Soviet leader, now available for smaller roles. "If we can only...
...took Russia 10 days to shake the world. Last week it took just one. Although the latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
Aristide, Haiti's popularly-elected president, was deposed in a September 1991 coup d'etat after serving nine months in office. Chomsky said Clinton has perpetuated the Bushadministration's policy of only supportingAristide's reinstatement as a figurehead in agovernment made up of the current military leadersand other wealthy elite...