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...worth about $3 billion, or at least $100 per share. Analysts estimated that the company's Pacific routes and real estate holdings, including $500 million worth of property in Japan, have a value of $2 billion by themselves. Beyond that, Northwest owns more than 230 airliners and has a far-flung route system that extends from Shanghai to Stockholm...
...management buyouts, the executives of a particular division buy it from a larger parent company. These managers are out to prove they can run their own show -- and run it better than some sprawling conglomerate that has grown inattentive or slothlike in responding to the needs of its far-flung divisions. Some 1,100 units of U.S. companies have been acquired by their managers since 1982, and it is a blue-chip list: the Montgomery Ward department-store chain, bought by its executives from Mobil; the former ITT subsidiary that makes Scott lawn products; the onetime Unisys unit that produces...
Murdoch is no absentee press lord. His home is now New York City, but he spends much of his time traveling among his far-flung operations. While he may rely on his two chief lieutenants, Richard Sarazen and Martin Singerman, for handling financial matters and administrative details, the one in charge is Murdoch. Says Investment Banker Veronis of the Triangle deal: "At our first meeting, he carefully picked up each publication, and we talked about the content and the market that the publication reached. There are very few people who are editorially astute and who have a penchant to learn...
...burst in the air it would be spread over a large area but it is all in one area," he said. But he said the far-flung wing was "a puzzle to investigators...
Carey's next trick is to bring these two similarly addicted but far-flung young people together. Lucinda journeys to London, where she consults with the designer of the Crystal Palace, the glass-and-iron housing for the famed Exhibition of 1851, about new directions her factory should take. Oscar, meanwhile, successfully out of Oxford and teaching school, has begun to feel that his method of raising money, while not in itself sinful, has inspired unholy passions in his soul. He longs, in short, to bet on everything. So, on the toss of a coin, he decides that...