Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chase. Last week Iacocca stunned Wall Street and the auto industry by joining with the billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, 77, in a spectacular bid to take over the nation's third largest automaker. After three months of downward drift in the value of Chrysler stock, Kerkorian offered investors $55 a share, a 40% premium over the $39.25 price it posted one day before the bid went public...
...wonder the local Kublai Khans are planning more. Treasure Island's Steve Wynn, who also owns the tony Mirage, is ready to break more banks with his new Beau Rivage resort next year. The Grand's Kirk Kerkorian, when he's not plotting his takeover of Chrysler, looks at plans for his new hostelry, New York-New York, whose facade will be in the shape of the Manhattan skyline. Even the Walt Disney Co. is rumored to be looking at Las Vegas property-though Disney chairman Michael Eisner denies any interest in bringing Disney to Vegas...
Former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca wants his company back. He and billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian are attempting to buy the No. 3 automaker for $22.8 billion. Their lavish, unsolicited $55 per share proposal -- more than 40 percent above yesterday's closing stock price -- would be the biggest U.S. corporate takeover since the $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1988. Today's surprise announcement boosted Chrysler stock and prompted Chairman Robert Eaton to scrap a scheduled New York auto show speech.TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays Chrysler is well positioned to fight a takeover because...
...Scofflaws' ode, "William Shatner," is another prime example of the gleeful nature of ska. Dedicated to the actor of Star Trek fame, the few words of the song not suprisingly treat William Shatner as a mere synonym for Captain Kirk: "He's got a fine tan shirt with an emblem on the chest/ The interstellar girls all like him the best." MU330 from St. Louis also show their wackiness with the song "Stuff." Described playfully in the liner notes as being "a hopeless romantic sort of thing, really," this tune contains such memorable lines as "I'm just so tired...
This punishment flatly contradicts the Ad Board's policy as explained in its brochure. The booklet provides sample cases, meant to illustrate a representative punishment for a given crime. The relevant case deals with two hypothetical students named Kirk Land and Lev Rette who become involved in a fight resulting in "cuts and bruises" for both. The punishment? "The Ad Board required both KL and LR to withdraw for one year because of physical violence...