Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events that inspired Pennzoil's suit began on Jan. 1, 1984, when Pennzoil's Liedtke and Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty shook hands on a merger. Pennzoil agreed to pay $5.4 billion, or $110 a share, to buy 43% of Getty. The remaining 57% was to stay in Getty family hands. The two companies announced the merger to the press, signed a memorandum of agreement, even had a champagne toast. But before the paper work was completed, Texaco Chairman John McKinley approached Getty with an offer worth $10.2 billion, or $125 a share, for the entire company...
Harvard sophomore skipper Gordon Burnes and shipmate Petra Shumann placed first in the A division to lead the Crimson...
...York it might seem almost child's play, but in Britain a billion-dollar merger or acquisition remains a remarkable event. Last week several behemoth-size deals were in the offing. Argyll, a supermarket chain, offered $2.8 billion to acquire Distillers, maker of Johnnie Walker Scotch and Gordon's gin, and Britain's General Electric bid $1.8 billion for Plessey, an electronics firm...
...Morning News inspired cries of outrage from news traditionalists. A group of CBS News stars even inquired about possibly buying their division from the company. Last week the target of much of the staff discontent, CBS News President Edward Joyce, 52, was replaced. His job goes to Van Gordon Sauter, 50, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group and Joyce's immediate predecessor as news chief...
...love Harvard," said Shari Leigh Gordon, who spent last summer at Harvard's Summer School. Gordon is attending her first Harvard Model...