Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: ITT brushed aside Hilton's hostile takeover bid with a brisk "no thanks, and, by the way, your offer is too low." ITT, which owns numerous properties including Sheraton hotels and Madison Square Garden, said that besides being too low, the Hilton offer of $55 a share (or $6.5 billion total) was incompatible with its goals. "There are serious business conflicts in a Sheraton-Hilton combination," said ITT chairman Rand Araskog. The move is part of a strategy designed to push Hilton's offer above $60 a share. "This is not the end of it. Now the real...
...happens to be owned by ITT Corp. and run by Rand Araskog, a man not keen on having his corporate masterwork painted over. That's why Hilton's $55-a-share, $6.5 billion offer for ITT, whose holdings also include the Caesars World chain of casinos and Madison Square Garden, is becoming the kind of delicious dogfight that Wall Street loves...
...disease has been diagnosed. "I hope we're not on the same course as the British," says Rohwer, "but we could be." What concerns Rohwer and others is that the U.S. agricultural industry, like its British counterpart, recycles animal scraps, turning them into both cattle feed and garden fertilizer. Should even one domestic cow develop the disease spontaneously--something that is known to occur in nature--the pathogen could quickly spread through U.S. herds...
...doesn't really make a lot of difference to [our patrons]" said Michael S. Struk, assistant front office manager of the Sheraton Commander on Garden Street. He said he quotes a range, not the flat rate, when his guests ask what a cab ride to Logan will cost...
...week's party commemorating the birthday of Emperor Akihito (he turned 63 this year) was no exception. More than 1,000 invitations were sent out, and by 8 p.m. anyone interested in glimpsing a real-life Who's Who in Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall, where more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa...