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...1980s, but the no-deal '90s seemed to have stymied the buyout behemoth. Last week, however, KKR showed that it remains a powerful takeover force. In a deal that would give KKR a substantial interest in magazines, the firm led a partnership that included several former officers of the Macmillan publishing and information-services company in a tentative agreement to pay more than $600 million for nine U.S. publications owned by debt-laden media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The KKR group would acquire such titles as Seventeen, New York and the Daily Racing Form, but the deal would exclude Murdoch...
...addition to the Daily Mirror, Maxwell controls Macmillan Publishing Co., Pergamon Press--the world's largest scientific publishing company, and the Berlitz School of Language. He has recently launched The European, an English language weekly newspaper, which caters to the 12 member countries of the European Community...
...Just as Macmillan said, many people interviewed found it difficult to say exactly why they came out to the Stadium on this cloudy, chilly day. Most agreed, however, that it was not for the quality of the football...
...Macmillan said that in his years of ushering, he has often thought there was an unofficial competition to be the oldest alumni returning to the game...
...Macmillan said he wasn't quite sure what kept the alumni coming back, but he had one idea. "Maybe it keeps them living, who knows," he said...