Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggling Delta would create a giant with more than $18 billion in revenues. But the consolidation could reduce competition. "I see the Justice Department digging in their heels and not allowing this acquisition to go through," says Michael Bradley, a finance professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University...
...ROBERT M. BASS and ANNE BASS A $20 million donation from the 1970 Yale University graduate and his wife will help renovate Yale's aging residential colleges. The Basses also gave $10 million to Duke to enable the university to make chairs for full professorships available for only $1.1 million instead of the usual $1.5 million, with the hope of persuading other donors to endow professorships, and $1.4 million to bring these professors together in a group known as the Bass Fellows. Total: $31.4 million. Previously the Basses have given $25 million to Stanford and $20 million to Yale (Robert...
Among Ivy League schools, Columbia was fourth, Brown fifth and Dartmouth 21st. Duke University ranked first, and the U.S. Military Academy was last
Which isn't to say that Harvard didn't have its moments. The Terriers have a lot of talent--Beard is a highly-recruited transfer from Duke, and forward Tunji Awojobi may end up in the NBA some day. And in that first half, Grancio and center Kyle Snowden held the duo to a combined 12 points and seven rebounds...
Even for a duke of cyberspace like Bill Gates, the price seemed steep. In 1994 he paid the estate of oil baron Armand Hammer $30.8 million for one of Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry...