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...loud knockout of an album...
...every fight has to be won with a knockout punch. We're confident that we can win any bout on points alone...
With their minds thus concentrated, one thought dominated all those at the meeting: how to throw a knockout punch that would be, as one of them put it, a "Diller-killer." The notion of tossing in more cash or stock was quickly nixed as too costly. So were bigger warrants and increased dividends. After several such options were rejected, Greenhill turned to one of his whiz-kid investment-banking strategists, Michael Levitt, 35, who described a scheme he said would blow away Diller. The novel plan called for issuing a type of security, called a contingent value right...
...quite take your breath away. That's the downside of disciplined filmmaking. Even though the movie is quarried out of a substantial fictional trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis, it plays more as anecdote than as a fully developed narrative. It feels somehow ephemeral -- a glancing blow, not quite a knockout. Still, emotional acuity, expressed with brisk intelligence, is not a common movie commodity, and it ought to be valued when you come across...
...merger also gave Redstone extra cash, which he had been desperately seeking, to use in the battle for control of Paramount. Reinforced by Blockbuster's huge cash hoard and rock-solid balance sheets, he immediately upped his offer for Paramount by $1.2 billion. "It may not be the knockout blow," said an obviously pleased Redstone, "but from our standpoint it is an extremely dramatic coup." Both Redstone and Huizenga insisted that the merger had been in the works for months and would go forward whether or not the company gained control of Paramount...