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...release February 25, Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, revolves around the life of Montgomery Marvin, a fictional junior professor of economics at Harvard. Marvin invents the Index of Irrational Expectations (IRAT), an economic formula that allows him to make a fortune...
...drew gasps as well, since it was the most ever offered for an airline and was almost 50% higher than the price of AMR shares just before the bid. But the airline industry is in the grip of takeover fever. After fending off bids from Los Angeles oilman Marvin Davis, the management and employees of No. 2-ranked United in Chicago are attempting to take their company private for an estimated $6.7 billion. And last June an investor group led by Los Angeles financier Alfred Checchi paid $3.6 billion for No. 4-ranked Northwest Airlines. Of the four largest...
...live up to their civic responsibilities is that only five out of twelve posted a profit last year. Overall, the casinos earned just $14.7 million after expenses in 1988, a meager return on the $2.73 billion that gamblers lost in the slot machines and at the tables, according to Marvin Roffman, a casino analyst with Philadelphia's Janney Montgomery Scott. The reason is the debt the casinos have taken on in the past three years, much of it through junk bonds, either to fight off takeovers or engineer them. Atlantic City's casinos have incurred more than $2 billion...
...approved a bid by the carrier's management and pilots' union to buy out the second largest U.S. carrier for $6.75 billion. In the highly leveraged deal, employees would own 75% of the company, top managers would get 10% and investor British Airways would have 15%. Beverly Hills billionaire Marvin Davis, who had bid $6.19 billion for UAL, said he would match the management group's offer if that package were to fail. In Washington a takeover group headed by Los Angeles investor Alfred Checchi outlined its $3.65 billion purchase of NWA, the parent of Northwest Airlines, in a voluminous...
Bloomingdale's may fetch as much as $2 billion in an auction that is expected to attract bidders from Manhattan to Tokyo. Among them is Marvin Traub, chairman of the chain, who is planning a management-led buyout. But selling Bloomie's will not be enough. Campeau's firm conceded last week that it may default on $1.27 billion in fourth-quarter debt payments. The disclosure sent prices of Allied junk bonds plunging 20% in value in just one day, while Federated's fell...