Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holmes hall in North house, will be completedon schedule.
Holmes a Court, 49, made an initial move three months ago, after Texaco was forced into bankruptcy proceedings by its debilitating legal battle with Pennzoil. He announced that he had paid $541 million for 6.4% of Texaco's 242 million outstanding shares "exclusively for purposes of investment." Wall Street experts...
Born in South Africa, the son of a prosperous British rancher, Holmes a Court (the family name dates from the Norman Conquest in 1066) studied law in Perth, in western Australia, and decided to settle there. But the young attorney hit his stride once he got into investing. Often underestimated...
Holmes a Court's accumulation of Texaco's stock may be nothing more than a shrewd gamble on the firm's long-term health and its ability to reach a settlement with Pennzoil. Looking at the company's substantial oil and gas reserves and other holdings, most financial analysts think...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Patricia Delaney, Michael Duffy, Hays Gorey, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce...