Word: mohawk
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...Some have already begun. Last month shareholders approved a deal to sell LG&E Energy Corp., based in Louisville, Ky., to the German giant E.ON. Its German competitor, RWE, bought one of the largest U.S. water utilities in January, the same month that a British firm picked up Niagara Mohawk of Syracuse, N.Y. Flush with cash and out of room to grow on their own turf, the Europeans see an opportunity in the U.S. to pick up individual plants or whole companies at fire-sale prices...
...capacity of National Grid Transco [the merged company] to take advantage of opportunities in the liberalizing energy markets abroad, in particular extending National Grid's successful U.S. strategy." Half the company's profits already come from the U.S., thanks to three utilities it owns in the Northeast, including Niagara Mohawk, which National Grid bought in January...
...Expecting a revival in corporate takeovers, Green, co-manager of the Merger Fund, has begun accepting new money from investors for the first time in two years. And his timing looks good. Last week Phillips Petroleum agreed to acquire Conoco for $15 billion in stock, followed swiftly by carpetmaker Mohawk Industries' $1.4 billion deal to buy flooring company Dal-Tile and the announcement of a $3 billion cruise-line merger of Royal Caribbean with Princess. There was even talk that cruise-line heavy Carnival might pre-empt that deal by bidding for Princess...
...after leafing through the 377 pages—printed, we are informed, on “Mohawk Superfine Paper”—one can only conclude that what was suspected sitting through Rudenstine’s brain-aching addresses was actually the truth. Pointing Our Thoughts will teach future generations only that in 10 eminently forgettable years, Neil Rudenstine used the bully pulpit bequeathed by Eliot, Conant and Pusey only when it came time to pass the collection plate. This, in turn, meant that from the perspective of the undergraduate population, which knew him only as a stooped...
...back jacket of each of the books I bought. Add the fact that he looked exactly like John Malkovitch, and it could’ve been a scene right out of the Twilight Zone. What is ‘off’ is not conventional strangeness of the mohawk-and-nose-ring variety, but a subtle, subliminal sense of unease. Where words like ‘kooky,’ ‘wacko’ and ‘lunatic’ are essential parts of a New York vocabulary, it’s much harder to define...