Word: fours
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers strike next door, ransacking the home of Rehab Abu Asab, 50. One of her four children is among the hundreds of Palestinians on the army's wanted list. "They've done this 14 times," she mutters. "Only God can stop them...
...Macmillan; $13.95). Marilyn Singer's liberated verses suggest bodily rhythms (Deer Mouse: "get enough to last/ get enough to store/ get more"; Beavers: "You guard/ I pack/ I dig/ You stack"; Dragonfly: "Look/ skim/ there/ snap/ eat/ Repeat"). Meanwhile, Jerry Pinkney's watercolors furnish the shades and tints of four seasons and 15 highly articulate animals...
...chain was founded in 1865 by Benjamin Altman, the son of a milliner. In recent decades, the stores were run by the Altman Foundation, which gave $500,000 of the firm's profits to charities each year. Four years ago, the foundation sold Altman's to B.A. Realty Associates for a price estimated at more than $100 million. The investors then sold the chain, without the real estate, to two accountants, Anthony Conti and Philip Semprevivo, who quickly cut costs and revived the store's merchandising by turning over some departments to savvy outside retailers like toy seller F.A.O. Schwarz...
Since then one reversal after another has hit Bilzerian and the company. Sentenced in August to four years in prison for violating tax and securities laws in previous raids, Bilzerian is appealing that conviction. Singer, renamed Bicoastal after Bilzerian sold eight of twelve divisions to meet $120 million in annual interest payments, sought refuge from creditors last month by entering bankruptcy court. But management is no longer his concern: he resigned as Bicoastal chairman last summer after his criminal conviction...
Since those heady days, a battle-weary Pickens has abandoned the U.S. takeover field and gone hunting in Japan. But he has been stymied in a drive to win four seats on the board of Koito Manufacturing, a Tokyo auto-parts maker in which he controls a 20% share. Pickens says Koito has hired Wall Street consultants to advise the company on how to keep him at bay. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last August reinstated a class-action suit that Phillips Petroleum shareholders brought against Pickens in 1984. The plaintiffs claim that the value of their stock...