Word: makers
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...dominate at will is to be a Master of the Universe, according to Wolfe the pharse-maker. Masters of the Universe are the ultimate egotists, absorbed in the pursuit of a power that supercedes dollar values. In a way that differentiates him from his old-line WASP father, McCoy is a patrician with an all-consuming greed. Not merely to be rich, but to be the richest. The most. For as McCoy knows, it's not the money, but the control that he seeks on the trading floor, in his 20-room apartment, in the pied-a-terre...
...Kodak has been almost synonymous with photography. But in recent years the Rochester company has branched out into fields as far-ranging as computer disks and batteries. Last week Kodak made its most sweeping diversification move yet. The firm agreed to pay $5.1 billion to acquire Sterling Drug, the maker of such popular products as Bayer aspirin and Lysol cleaners. New York City-based Sterling welcomed the agreement as a way of escaping a takeover bid by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, the Swiss drug company...
When Robins informed her Unisys supervisors about this in June 1986, she + maintains she was told to drop the matter and not tell Rockwell about it. Her bosses considered her a trouble maker, she says, because she had complained earlier that Unisys did not have the proper facilities for protecting the software for secret Defense Department missions assigned to shuttle flights...
Based on a film and book by Marcel Pagnol, a French film-maker and champion of the peasantry, this two-part tale of the decline of a powerful family combines the charm of Provence peasantry with the intrigue of a Greek tragedy...
Merhige's ruling removed much of the uncertainty surrounding Robins and encouraged the flurry of takeover bids. Right through New Year's Day, the contestants kept raising the ante. American Home Products, the maker of Anacin headache tablets, reportedly offered $3.08 billion, as Sanofi did. But A.H.P. wanted all of Robins, while Sanofi was content with 58%. The last announced bid from Rorer, the manufacturer of Maalox antacid, was valued at $2.98 billion...