Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even as Johnson backed away from his huge initial stake, rival bidders rushed in to get theirs. The competing offers turned the fight for RJR Nabisco, whose brands range from Animals Crackers to Winston cigarettes, into the brassiest and potentially most damaging brawl in Wall Street history. By last week three groups were locked in a titanic struggle for the company (1987 revenues: $15.8 billion), and the offering price has climbed above $26 billion -- more than the gross national product of Peru or Portugal and twice the sum that Chevron paid for Gulf Oil in 1984 in the largest previous...
...directors' invitation attracted a third and scrappy new bidder who helped turn the fight into a virtual Who's Who of finance and industry. Assembled by the First Boston investment firm, the group of newcomers included Jay Pritzker, the Chicago-based chairman of Hyatt Corp., his wealthy family and Philip Anschutz, a Denver oil billionaire. First Boston also wooed Harry Gray, the retired chairman of United Technologies, and several other high- rolling investors. The group came into the bidding with a show-stopping but tentative offer of cash and securities worth up to $26.8 billion, or $118 a share...
...fight for RJR Nabisco, that seems to have happened in spectacular fashion. No matter how the battle turns out, the unseemly scramble for riches has, for the moment at least, given overreaching a bad name. In the end, the RJR brouhaha may turn out to be a useful testing of the limits: of greed, of debt, of dealmaking. The resulting outcry may prove an effective regulating device. "In its own way, the deal has been typically American, where nothing is in moderation, including the enormous selfishness of management," notes James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner. "It's touched a nerve...
Picture 160 people bicycling together up First Ave. in New York toward the United Nations building, their final destination after a 3600-mile cross-country trip to raise money to fight world hunger. Picture the homeless people on the street, cheering for the cyclists and their efforts to reduce human suffering even a little...
...chance that I would never see them again. I thought of my family. It was love that I cried for that day. From that bed I wanted to reach out and hold hands with everyone I had ever known...I vowed I would get off of that futon and fight the leukemia again just to have the chance to slow down and to love. There is nothing more important or more powerful...