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...feverish that sales of competing models slumped months before the so-called Peanut arrived at retail stores. Many dealers felt they would be selling PCjrs as fast as IBM could turn them out. "The market is voting with dollars," said David Wagman of Softsel, the country's largest independent software distributor. "And it's saying, 'IBM will be our standard...
...consortium headed by Multimillionaire H.R. ("Bum") Bright, who likened the purchase to art collecting ("You can enjoy it even though you didn't paint it"), and promised not to call any plays. "It will provide some return but not a good one," said Bright, whose 17% constitutes the largest share. "You would do better in Government bonds...
Perhaps, but the price of a pending sale of the Denver Broncos is reportedly not much lower. The Dallas transaction, largest in sports history, includes $20 million for the remaining 65 years on the lease to operate Texas Stadium, where Bright, 63, is shortly expected to announce a building boom in luxury boxes, the sale of which could bring $40 million (one stadium box recently went for $1 million). Real Estate Executive Craig Hall, 33, a 10% holder, said, "Nobody is looking to take large dividends. The investment will continue to appreciate if the team is allowed to maintain...
...anything is ever the same," Landry said. A model owner, Murchison was patient in the beginning and unobtrusive to the end. He decided last year to sell the team to settle the estate of his late brother and because of his own ill health. Although Dallasite WO. Bankston, the largest Lincoln-Mercury dealer in the U.S., was unsuccessful in his bid to acquire the most recognizable property in Texas, he said proudly, "At least there's not another city in the U.S. where a man could have a $600,000 investment and sell it for $75 million...
Last week the acrimony ended when McGrath gave approval to a revised merger plan. Under the agreement, LTV, the third-largest American steel producer, and Republic, the fourth biggest, will sign a consent decree requiring the merged company to sell off two Republic plants in Gadsden, Ala., and Massillon, Ohio, within six months after the deal goes through. The Alabama plant makes hot-and cold-rolled carbon and plate steel, while the Ohio one produces sheet stainless steel. The Justice Department said that paring down the production capacity of the new company will put the agreement within its antitrust guidelines...