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As far as CBS is concerned, the takeover drama should be called Mission: Impossible. Wall Street analysts agree that a hostile assault would cost at least $4 billion, more than Turner seems capable of raising. CBS has bolstered its defenses by eliminating a company bylaw that allowed a minority of...
But this maneuver gives the game away, destroying Harvard's own argument, for if it is wrong for a $10 million company to do $6 million worth of business with apartheid, surely it is equally wrong for a $5 billion company to do $2 billion worth of business there.
It was a noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they...
Just as the smoke was beginning to clear in Crossroads, the government struck back with its biggest nationwide political crackdown in years. In a carefully choreographed maneuver across several cities, South African security police swooped down on 70 homes and offices belonging to opponents of the government and, in particular...
A Greenmailer. One of Icahn's partners in the Phillips struggle is Saul Steinberg, 45, an expert in the fine art of greenmail. In that corporate maneuver, an investor buys up a large block of stock in a company and threatens to take it over in hopes that the firm...