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...just follow the bouncing ball. Price is an activist investor who has made millions buying large chunks of companies and then fomenting change to boost the stock price. He forced the merger of Chase and Chemical banks in 1995. He is currently engaged in a public battle with Dow Jones & Co. as well as ITT. And, oh, yes, little more than a year ago, Price, a 21% owner of Sunbeam, got Dunlap hired as CEO. The pay was right: Dunlap got 2.5 million stock options that, if all could be exercised today, would bring him $70 million. So when Dunlap...
TELECOM EXECS The Bell Atlantic-NYNEX merger may be no good for callers, but it's great for the corner offices...
...hospitals. Directors were worried that Scott's stonewalling of federal probes of Columbia's Medicare billings and home-health-care practices would only inflame the zeal of investigators and prosecutors and make a face-saving settlement impossible. And Columbia, which is based in Nashville, Tenn., was reportedly exploring a merger with Tenet Healthcare of Santa Barbara, Calif., the country's second largest hospital company. That deal would have been threatened by Columbia's prospective legal problems...
Most recently, Allen bigfooted Walter out of the way to explore a merger with SBC Communications, Inc., the largest of the regional Bells. The talks collapsed amid unofficial hints from FCC chairman Reed Hundt on the order of "Are you nuts...
...allies. His extensive meetings with AT&T employees and corporate clients buttressed morale, as did his promotion of several insiders. But along the way, Walter lost sight of the only constituency that mattered: Allen. Last April after Walter, not Allen, got the call from SBC's chairman proposing merger talks, Allen escalated his criticism, telling AT&T directors that Walter didn't grasp the complexities of the telecom business. By the time Walter faced the board to defend himself, its decision had been made...