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...Getty and Harold Williams, who represented the J. Paul Getty Museum. The document called for Getty to be acquired by a partnership of Pennzoil and a trust composed of the Getty heirs. Jamail contended that Texaco had unethically pressured key Getty shareholders to break the pact with Liedtke and opt for a higher offer...
...views were right. But Glucksman wanted total control and feared, rightly, that Peterson secretly hoped to sell Lehman at a premium before he reached age 60 and had to let the firm begin redeeming his shares. Glucksman sensed that Peterson had no stomach for a fight and would opt to be bought out. So, eight weeks after being promoted, he demanded that Peterson step aside...
...weakness shocked the West European powers. Britain and France invaded Egypt but then had to stand down in the face of opposition from the U.S. With the possible exception of the Falklands war, no major foreign military expedition has been launched by the European countries. They have tended to opt out of first-rank international leadership, accept their demotion to medium-size power status and grudgingly leave responsibility for their defense to the U.S. This sometimes comfortable, sometimes melancholy provincialization of Western Europe has led to a softness on terrorism and reluctance to take action...
...years of effort, the Harvard College Curricular Review’s General Education Committee will decline to release its recommendations—which conform to the “basically do what Yale does but save Justice” approach to reforming the Core—and instead opt to start over from scratch. Again...
...harassed students over the telephone in 2001 may still be at large, but Harvard has no intention of increasing the protections for student contact information. Rather, at the conclusion of the 2004-2005 academic year, contact information for FAS students will be publicly available unless students opt...