Word: icahn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Value investing still works. "I like to look at asset plays, stuff that makes sense no matter which way the market goes," says Carl Icahn, one of the few '80s raiders still plying that trade. Buying stocks with low multiples of earnings is out of fashion in today's Internet market. But that's where the long-term values...
...like we've done the right thing," he says. "I'm not a maverick." He can deny that all he wants. But LeBow is more maverick than James Garner. He shuns glamour, preferring to invest in down-and-out companies. He has teamed up with the likes of Carl Icahn, a consummate outsider. And he doesn't mind an ugly fight...
...only has TWA survived, but the carrier once piloted by mogul Howard Hughes and later by corporate raider Carl Icahn has been enjoying a financial turnaround. Just hours before Flight 800 went down, TWA reported a $25.3 million profit for the second quarter, a fivefold gain over the same period a year ago. And with passenger traffic growing, and its $300 million cash stockpile rising, TWA has been planning to add as many as 40 Boeing 757s and 15 McDonnell Douglas MD80s to modernize the U.S. industry's oldest fleet (average age: nearly 20 years). The airline canceled a party...
...MERE MENTION OF THE NAME OF FINANCIER Carl Icahn once sent chills through corporate boardrooms. That was before he got into the airline business. After seven long years of trying to make a go of TWA, Icahn has announced that he is giving up. As part of a reorganization plan that should enable the battered carrier to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early next year, Icahn agreed to provide $615 million in cash, loans and pension-fund guarantees. The deal will put the shrunken carrier on sounder financial footing, though it remains to be seen whether TWA can survive...
BUSINESS: Icahn's Tar Baby...