Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal brings sweet redemption to Digital's shareholders. Burdened by losses of more than $5 billion this decade, the company's stock slumped from nearly $200 a share in 1987 to $45 when Compaq jumped in with its $57.40-a-share offer. Compaq's stock, which more than doubled in the past year, closed at $30 last week...
Compaq wasted little time flexing its muscle. Shortly after announcing the Digital deal, Compaq elbowed IBM aside to become the exclusive PC supplier to Radio Shack's chain of 6,800 electronics stores. It surprised no one to watch an upstart that began by copying IBM triumph in a byte-to-byte contest with Big Blue...
...reason for giving the Olympics the same salute he has thrown journalists, contest officials and all who encroach on snowboarding's outsider ethos. The young antihero dislikes the formatted judging system and just about everything ordained by the Olympics and is suspicious of its structure and its ability to deal with his evolving sport. Mount Baker, with its loose nature, he says, "is a way more organized and professional contest...
...F.I.S., organizer of skiing's World Cup circuit, nearly sparked violence at some European events. Says Fawcett: "The F.I.S. didn't want anything to do with us until they realized it was going to be an Olympic event and that there would be [TV] network interest and a great deal of money." Other riders felt the F.I.S. had little understanding of snowboarding's anti-Establishment culture. The scuttlebutt too was that the F.I.S. circuit is second rate...
...track when it's like pulling teeth to get anything from [the President]?" Martinez recalls saying. Within days, Martinez got a late-night call from Clinton, and, later, a call from Transportation Secretary RODNEY SLATER, telling him that the project would move forward. Martinez claims "there was never a deal," but a week after he came out in favor of the now dormant fast-track bill, the Federal Highway Administration green-lighted the 4.5-mile project. At $311 million a mile, the freeway would slice through historic areas of South Pasadena and the largely Latino community of El Sereno, displacing...