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Circling each other warily, always on the lookout for decisive openings, Time Inc. and Paramount Communications engaged in a fresh round of legal and financial swordplay last week. No clear winner emerged in the epic duel, but the thrusts and parries offered Wall Street speculators plenty of titillation -- and uncertainty. Time's board started off by rejecting Paramount's sweetened takeover bid, in which the company raised its offer for Time from $175 to $200 a share, or a total of more than $12 billion. The Time directors reiterated their plan to go ahead with an acquisition of Warner Communications...
...TIME INC. MAGAZINES...
...headquarters of Paramount Communications, formerly Gulf & Western, where the company's 14-member board of directors was making a high-stakes decision. Just 30 minutes after trading closed on the New York Stock Exchange, Paramount announced that it was increasing its hostile bid for Time Inc. from $175 a share to $200, thus raising its total offer from $10.7 billion to more than $12 billion...
Outraged by industrial accidents and financial misdeeds, activists demand a more responsible corporate America. -- Paramount boosts its bid for Time Inc. to $12 billion...
BUSINESS: Time Inc. launches a counterstrike...