Word: mesas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first spring in memory, HoHoKam Park in Mesa, Ariz., does not seem to be laughing at the Chicago Cubs. The place still brims with pensioners, but fewer of them than usual are in uniform. Two hours before a Cactus League game with Milwaukee, outfielders are sprinting, base runners are drilling, and pitchers are covering first on bunts. Even a character as unromantic as the Cubs' 6-ft. 5-in. general manager, Dallas Green, the last baseball executive still executing on physical fear, is moved to murmur, "They're ready." He is referring to the fans, not the players. "They want...
...that Pickens took aim at Cities Service, an Oklahoma firm whose sales were nearly 20 times Mesa's. It proved badger tough, however, and nearly succeeded in swallowing Mesa by bidding for its stock before finally calling it quits and selling out to Occidental Petroleum. That hectic skirmish brought the Mesa group a $31.5 million profit and taught it some lessons. "Mesa had insufficient financial muscle throughout that fight," says Assistant Vice President Sidney Tassin. "We had a good idea but not enough money to back...
...From then until mid-February, he paid nearly $600 million for 13.8 million shares, pushing the stock's price from about $36 to $48. Returning to Amarillo on Feb. 14 aboard his company's ten-passenger Falcon 50 jet after a business trip to New York City, Pickens phoned Mesa's headquarters to find out whether it had sent word of the purchases to the New York Stock Exchange, as planned. When he found that the announcement had gone, Pickens jubilantly turned to a passenger and announced: "Well, it's public knowledge now. We're the biggest shareholders in Unocal...
...breakfast and likes to munch on Granny Smith apples during the day. Aides set out raw carrots as snacks during company meetings. He does not smoke, and he offers employees $6-a-month bonuses to give up the habit. IF YOU MUST SMOKE, reads an embroidered cushion in Mesa's corporate jet, PLEASE STEP OUTSIDE. But he is not averse to an occasional Scotch and soda at the end of the day, nor can he stop gobbling handfuls of nuts whenever they are within reach...
Pickens pursues health with the same single-mindedness that he brings to chasing wealth. The $2 million T. Boone Pickens Fitness Center at Mesa headquarters is an exercise buff's delight. In addition to four glass-walled racquetball courts, it offers a gym, indoor running track, a weight room and marbled showers and whirlpool. Pickens works out daily when he is in Amarillo, and his name is usually at the top of the center's racquetball tournament ladder. His prowess is on sculptured display outside the courts in the form of a life-size bronze statue that portrays a crouching...