Word: occidentale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armand Hammer seems to go on forever. Last week he formally teamed up with a people who have gone on forever, the Chinese. The 85-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum signed an agreement with the People's Republic for the largest Sino-U.S. deal yet: a $580...
It looked like a scene from The King and I, in which a proper English governess frantically coaches Oriental courtiers in the rudiments of Occidental custom. All week, for five hours a day, 140 uniformed Chinese waiters and waitresses marched in stiff single file through an empty hotel banquet hall...
By reselling its stock to Occidental, Mesa made a painless $12.5 million for simply hiring an army of bankers and lawyers to scare Citgo, and Pickens was excited about the possibilities. Two more unsuccessful but lucrative takeover bids by Mesa followed, and in August of 1983, having received his baptism...
Ironically, that time it was Gulf that stepped in as Pickens's savior when it looked like Mesa might just lose. Gulf offered to buy Citgo, freeing Mesa, then declined to do so. Citgo eventually went to Occidental Petroleum.
Born in Hungary. Suleiman came to the United States when she was 11, and graduated from Barnard College in 1960 with a B.A. in--of allthings--Chemistry. But at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, she began to study and teach French literature, earning a departmental teaching prize...