Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bidders might come forward and push the price of Paramount as high as $100 a share. But many experts on corporate value argue that Paramount is already overpriced at its current level. According to court papers in the case in Delaware, John Malone, the chairman of cable-TV giant Tele-Communications Inc., testified in a deposition that "one would have a hard time paying more than $75 a share" for Paramount. Malone is no casual observer: he reportedly offered Davis $70 a share for Paramount three years ago. Malone had also backed Diller's bid for Paramount through...
...Texas county says no to the computer giant's gay benefits...
...chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie doll. All that changes when Nancy emerges from an auspicious UFO encounter a full 50 ft. tall. She is toughened by her size -- a giant awakened. It is time to exact revenge for the past...
...United States is facing an economic border war. It has nothing to do with NAFTA, but its consequences make Ross Perot's giant sucking sound seem like nothing more that a Dust-Buster. Yet the only skirmish to receive national attention was packaged as a battle about benefits for domestic partners...
...dividends companies reap from overeager local politicians are staggering: McDonnell Douglas was offered more than $1 billion in incentives for a planned aircraft plant by several competing cities. In 1991, Minnesota offered Northwest Airlines $840 million in assorted goodies for the privilege of hosting a giant aircraft maintenance center. Ypsilante, Mich. earned the dubious distinction of snagging a GM plant at the cost of $1.5 billion in incentives, only to see GM subsequently shutter the plant and shift production to Arlington, Tex., which offered a fresh round of relocation incentives...