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...YORK--Eastern Airlines filed for protection from creditors in bankruptcy court yesterday, the sixth day of a Machinists strike, blaming pilots for a "cash crisis" that paralyzed the nation's seventh-largest airline...
Harvard was a limited partner in the largest LBO ever--the Kravis, Kolberg and Roberts takeover of RJR-Nabisco--and Lewis said that buyout was "very well conceived...
Lewis completed his first LBO in 1984, acquiring McCall Pattern Co. and selling it three years later for a 9000 percent profit. One month later, he managed the largest internatinal LBO in history, putting up $985 million for Beatrice International...
...Kentucky go-getter, who says she likes winning more than just competing, traveled around the world to "sell the state" to foreign companies. She lured Toyota, the largest Japanese company in North America, to Kentucky, creating 4500 new jobs and a $1 billion investment for the state. More than 400 new industries opened during her term, and more than 4000 companies expanded with the help of government financing...
Eastern, the nation's seventh-largest airline,already has nearly shut down, saying it has beenforced to lay off a total of 9500 workers thisweek because of the pilots' adherence to theMachinists' strike in a 17-month-old contractdispute...