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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many reasons to be skittish about China: uncomfortable living conditions, a complex government bureaucracy, lack of control over labor relations, the difficulty of repatriating profits, and unreliable power supplies. But as the business climate slowly improves, the Japanese will become more interested in what is potentially the world's largest market...
...extraordinary specter is haunting the leaders of some of America's largest corporations. The specter is a Texan--a very rich and wily one. His name is T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens Jr. The danger executives see is that he may be out to buy their company, and when Pickens attacks, his prey rarely escapes unscathed. Indeed, a remarkable run of successes has made T. Boone Pickens, 56, president of Amarillo-based Mesa Petroleum, probably the most feared corporate raider on the business scene today...
...while Pickens is saying little about his plans, Wall Street is buzzing with speculation. Among the most frequently named takeover targets are Mobil, the third largest U.S. energy company, Texaco, the fourth biggest, Sun, which ranks ninth, and Unocal, the twelfth...
...others hatched what was, in effect, a one-shot blind bidding contest, and ABC, pulled along by the bold auctioneering, shut out the competition with a shocker of a bid: $225 million. Buoyed by the TV deal, he turned toward his other big source of revenue, America's largest corporations. To create an aura of coveted elitism, he drastically reduced the number of sponsors to 30 (there had been 381 in the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid) and hiked the price to an unprecedented $4 million minimum per corporation...
...governments, major banks suffered a 30% decline in profits during the first three quarters of 1984, and 79 institutions failed. In addition, Government regulators put 817 of the 14,700 U.S. banks on their "problem list." The worst problem was Continental Illinois, which started the year as the seventh largest U.S. bank. It would have collapsed under its bad loans if the U.S. Government had not provided a $4.5 billion bailout in July. Federal regulators took control of the bank, installed new management and fired most of the directors...