Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fended off Congoleum Corp.'s cash offer for Universal Leaf Tobacco. Says a Wall Street merger and acquisition specialist: "Marty tied Congoleum up for over eight months in the courts, and it got mauled so badly that it finally went away." The legal strategist representing Congoleum was Joe Flom...
Flom and Lipton first faced off in 1959, when Harvard-trained Flom represented management and Lipton, a graduate of New York University, represented a group of dissident shareholders in the United Industrial Corp. proxy fight. It was a draw. As Lipton recalls, "Joe got four seats on the board and we got four seats." Their first big tender fight was the $84 million Colt (Flom) takeover of Garlock (Lipton) where the term "Saturday Night Special" was coined to describe Colt's lightning raid. It is impossible to estimate which lawyer has a better winning record because even when...
EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE Directed by James Fargo Screenplay by Jeremy Joe Kronsberg
Public universities, which must take care not to turn away the children of taxpayers, emphasize that they do not hand out free educations to foreigners. Says Joe West Neal, director of the International Office at the University of Texas at Austin, which has students from some 90 countries: "A government will come to us and say, 'Here is a check for $400,000. This is for our children. They are our future.' " Private institutions have no curbs on the number of foreigners they can take. At Stanford's business school, which accepts only one in twelve applicants...
From Milwaukee to Muncie, from South Bend to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blow, they were blowing snow. The Midwest lay cold and, to a certain extent, lifeless last week under the region's worst blizzard in memory. Some 3 ft. of snow immobilized Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and parts of Kansas, Michigan and Wisconsin. Temperatures dropped as low as 19° F below zero, putting a hard crust on the blanket and turning whole counties into blocks of ice. Said Allen Pearson, director of the National Weather Service's Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City...