Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month from right-wing groups in the U.S. and sympathetic foreign governments. The rebels even plan to sell % "contrabonds," similar to the U.S. war bonds that helped finance this country in World War II. "The aid is still coming in, but it's just enough to maintain the fight, not expand it," says a top-ranking contra...
...resources to higher valued uses and stimulate effective corporate management." Perhaps the most important result is that Pickens and his fellow raiders have served notice on the leaders of American firms. If they do not manage their companies skillfully, they could find themselves in the middle of a takeover fight with the gambler from Amarillo, or someone like...
...proved badger tough, however, and nearly succeeded in swallowing Mesa by bidding for its stock before finally calling it quits and selling out to Occidental Petroleum. That hectic skirmish brought the Mesa group a $31.5 million profit and taught it some lessons. "Mesa had insufficient financial muscle throughout that fight," says Assistant Vice President Sidney Tassin. "We had a good idea but not enough money to back...
...windfall. When some 50 of the speculators attended a dinner for Pickens last June at the Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, New York Mayor Edward Koch gave him a crystal replica of the city's symbol, the apple, in honor of the $50 million that the Gulf fight had brought to New York City in the form of legal fees and payments for other services. Midway through the evening a chimpanzee on roller skates suddenly appeared. Garbed in Gulf filling-station livery, the ape wheeled into the room, sat down next to Pickens and began licking his face...
...drive off Pickens, and BOONE BUSTERS T shirts sprouted everywhere. At a public meeting, nearly 4,000 people belted out an anti-Pickens song (chorus: "There's gonna be a meeting at the old town hall tonight/ And if they try to stop us, there's gonna be a fight./ We're gonna get our company out of this awful fix,/ 'Cause we don't want to change our name to Pickens...