Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumors about a takeover of CBS last week were turned into prime-time fare, the cast would ensure boffo ratings. Here is Ted Turner, the mustachioed buccaneer of the cable airwaves whose passion is to call another network his own. There is Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street wizard who spends millions to make millions. And don't forget Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Senator who has suggested to his constituents that it would be nice if they were Dan Rather's boss...
...even if Bach realized that his music would last, he surely could not have imagined the changes posterity would make. Director of the Electronic Music Studio Ivan A. Tcherepnin said, "Bach showed a lot of foresight by not specifying instruments, tempo, or dynamics in some of his works. It's as if he was saying, in three hundred years, you can experiment with these things...
...triumphant rebound for Forman, 53, the Czechoslovak director whose five awards in 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were followed by two commercial disappointments, Hair and Ragtime. "The Academy members are fans of people like Milos who take chances and succeed," says Director Ivan Passer, one of Forman's best friends. "They like Cinderella stories, and they like to make them come true. That was in their power this year, and they...
...York, Financier Ivan Boesky was rumored last week to have bought 7% to 8% of CBS for $240 million. The purchase did not mean that Boesky was gunning for the network, but it did put him in a good position to profit handsomely from any CBS takeover attempt. In Miami, the management of Storer Communications, owner of seven TV stations in cities such as Atlanta, Boston and Cleveland, was fighting off an effort by dissident shareholders to dismember the company and sell its parts...
Just ten years ago, risk arbitrage was practiced only by a few high rollers. The merger boom, however, has provided so many opportunities that many other investors have become involved. By far the biggest and boldest of the arbs is Ivan F. Boesky, 47, who has his own privately held firm. He raked in about $50 million on Texaco's 1984 takeover of Getty and $65 million last year when Chevron bought Gulf. Three weeks ago, Boesky turned a tidy profit when he bought 3 million shares of Holiday Inns at $47.30 just as the company was offering...