Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alfosin earlier flew by helicopter to the army base and said he met with the mutineers' leader, ex-Lt. Col. Aldo Rico, at a neutral site within the sprawling wooded compound...
Princeton came out fired up to start the second half, and when a Dave Madden shot flew past Bergmann 85 seconds into the third quarter, the game was knotted...
...left itself an escape hatch. Officials said that if a settlement was reached soon or a large reduction of the bond granted, then the company could withdraw or suspend the bankruptcy filing. In other words, Texaco could be using its bankruptcy as the ultimate pressure tactic against Pennzoil. Liedtke flew to New York City on Sunday...
Texaco made that dismal choice only after frantic, repeated efforts to reach a settlement with Pennzoil produced no results. Within hours following the Supreme Court's ruling, Texaco Chairman Alfred DeCrane, 55, and Chief Executive James Kinnear, 59, flew with a battery of lawyers from White Plains to Pennzoil's home city of Houston. But Pennzoil's combative chairman, J. Hugh Liedtke, 65, who has stayed on past retirement age to fight the case, steadfastly refused at least ten settlement offers from Texaco. At the start of the talks, Texaco apparently had a figure of $500 million in mind...
...negotiations continued through Thursday. Between meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company...