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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently conducting a full-scale investigation of whether Morris violated federal laws about computer security by setting loose his virus onto the nation's largest computer network, the Internet, which is also used by the Pentagon...
...member HUCTW will become the largest union in private higher education. In addition, it is the latest successful organizing drive to capitalize on the unique concerns of a "pink-collar" workforce, like Harvard's quasi-professional, mostly female support staff...
...contest has already pushed the price for RJR Nabisco above $20 billion, which means that the potential buyout would dwarf the largest previous takeover, the $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf by Chevron in 1984. The megastakes battle has taken the starch out of corporate chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially...
...Kravis and Roberts, KKR has become a Wall Street steamroller. Its biggest buyouts include the Beatrice food conglomerate for $6.2 billion and the Safeway grocery chain for $4.5 billion. But while KKR is well known as an investment adviser, few people realize that it has become one of the largest industrial holding companies in America. Though KKR readily sells off pieces of the firms it buys, it usually retains some core businesses. Of the 35 companies it has acquired, KKR still has control of 23. As a result, KKR has become a huge conglomerate. The companies it controls produce everything...
CAPTION: KKR's LARGEST DEALS...