Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't going to take 18% of this company for seven people. You could multiply and get these incredible figures, that I could make a billion dollars. What was in the newspapers was only the seven that I could identify because they were the only ones working on the deal. If I'd known it was going to be in the newspapers, I would have said, "Look, there's going to be 15,000 people." They will get at least 5%. I always saw myself in there at around 1%. In seven or eight years, I could make $100 million...
Though Milken's title is only senior executive vice president, he has set Drexel's tone and direction during the past decade, according to many who deal with the firm. But his yen for control and lack of regard for convention, which served him so well in staking out his new financial realm, may have been what led him to allegedly illegal tactics. Says journalist Connie Bruck, author of the 1988 book on Drexel titled The Predator's Ball: "For years he's been a law unto himself. He has disdain for the way the world works. He figures...
...come to the conclusion that at all levels the attack would be totally disastrous. It didn't take a great deal of brains to see that. Airborne troops were going to land 60 miles ahead of the ground troops and take three main bridges over three big rivers. Then the relieving ground troops had to go across the low country. We learned that two of the best Panzer divisions in the German army, the 9th and 10th S.S. Panzer Divisions, were refitting right where the 1st Airborne Division was going to land. I couldn't see the strategic point...
...Israelis wanted to strike a blow at the P.L.O. I spent a great deal of time trying to persuade rather skeptical Israelis, including Ariel Sharon, that they were better off without an invasion...
...think at the superpower level one has to believe and hope that the threat has for various reasons decreased. But I think the situation at the intermediate level requires a great deal of attention. There is an enormous arms flow to the developing world...