Word: madison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: ITT brushed aside Hilton's hostile takeover bid with a brisk "no thanks, and, by the way, your offer is too low." ITT, which owns numerous properties including Sheraton hotels and Madison Square Garden, said that besides being too low, the Hilton offer of $55 a share (or $6.5 billion total) was incompatible with its goals. "There are serious business conflicts in a Sheraton-Hilton combination," said ITT chairman Rand Araskog. The move is part of a strategy designed to push Hilton's offer above $60 a share. "This is not the end of it. Now the real...
...Sheraton, which happens to be owned by ITT Corp. and run by Rand Araskog, a man not keen on having his corporate masterwork painted over. That's why Hilton's $55-a-share, $6.5 billion offer for ITT, whose holdings also include the Caesars World chain of casinos and Madison Square Garden, is becoming the kind of delicious dogfight that Wall Street loves...
...factories of rancor." Almost from its inception, American Atheists spawned splinter groups, usually led by people Madalyn had wooed, employed and finally alienated, often viciously and profanely. "She went through people like popcorn," says Anne Gaylor, who in 1978 became head of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin. "People realized, 'We can do this on our own,'" says Kerns. Madalyn, without irony, told offenders they had been "excommunicated...
...added 1.5 million acres of land to our national parks. By his own admission, George Washington was personally responsible for the deforestation of cherry trees. Bill Clinton reduced crime on our streets; Thomas Jefferson's Vice President shot a guy! Bill Clinton has signed more nuclear disarmament than James Madison, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk combined...
Other recipients of the Research Training Grants are the University of California at Los Angeles, $1.9 million; the University of Michigan, $1.2 million; the University of Wisconsin-Madison, $1.2 million; Michigan State University, $1 million; Teachers College, Columbia University, $1 million; the University of California at Berkeley, $1 million; the University of Pennsylvania, $1 million; and Stanford University...