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...Observes Geoffrey Boisi, 36, a top mergermaker at Goldman Sachs: "We're a psychiatrist, a father confessor, a coach as well as a financial architect. Sometimes we have to be the bastards in the background who hold the line." When Pennzoil offered $112.50 a share for Getty Oil last January, Boisi was convinced the bid was too low. So beginning at 7:30 one morning, he phoned six U.S. oil companies and the government of Saudi Arabia to find another buyer. Within 48 hours, Texaco responded with a higher offer. When Pennzoil, advised by Lazard...
...states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when its lease over the New Territories expires...
...orbital repair completed, Challenger's crew will return to Florida on Thursday, April 12. If the complex mission works as planned, Challenger will have shown the world that costly satellites need no longer be allowed to die wastefully in space. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Geoffrey Leavenworth/Houston
Despite Hart's disorganized surge, Geoffrey Tomb of the Miami Herald says Florida is a "Walter Mondale type of state." Tomb cites a large elderly population, many of them Jewish and strongly pro-Israel. "Florida has the demographics that you need," Tomb says. "If Mondale cannot win in Florida, his candidacy is through...
Some analysis maintain that even in primaries, the amount of strategic voting is relatively small. "The public polls which appear throughout the media are, by and large, a product of the spectator sport element of politics," says Geoffrey D. Garin '75, president of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a private polling company, whose clients include Democratic frontrunner Walter F. Mondale...