Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Revlon, the cosmetics giant, responded to a hostile takeover bid last week by putting on its war paint. The company's extra touch was a repellent that could be termed poison lipstick. Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except...
...case where the jury ruled in your favor--that three of the 55 paragraphs in the August 1982 article were false and published with "knowing or reckless disregard" of their falsity--it was because you answered reporter Walter V. Robinson's questions about the claimed earnings of your company Fort Hill investors, as vaguely as possible...
...first time, when Robinson asked you if you were saying that Fort Hill earned fees of $4 million to $5 million in 1981, the transcript of the tape recorded interview showed that you did not directly answer the question and suggested that $4 million to $5 million was the right number. After Robinson reviewed securities and Exchange Commission records and found that wasn't the case, you backed off, down to $2 million to $3.3 million...
...after Stanley was elected to head the S.B.C. for the first time, Honeycutt declared a "holy war" on the Fundamentalists. He was joined by ( President Russell Dilday of the seminary in Fort Worth, who says the Stanley forces are dishonest and use "blatant non-Christian tactics." Among them: tape-recording lectures of seminary teachers to hunt for "heresy...
...microwave gadgetry atop Soviet consulates and in offices. Sophisticated laser devices can eavesdrop on conversation in a room by picking up the vibrations from the windowpane. The most insecure place to store information is probably a computer. A study by the Department of Defense Computer Security Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though no one has ever been caught doing it, the mere thought of Soviet intelligence plugging into Defense Department computers, particularly the ones that command the American nuclear arsenal...