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When he was younger, Manny Pearlman planned to have his own investment firm. Now, at the advanced age of 28, he has one: Manhattan's Gemini Partners. And, as the newest and perhaps youngest player in the takeover game, he could have more companies in his pocket, soon. Last week Pearlman, acting on behalf of a group of investors, launched his first tender offer, a bid worth $240 million for Arkansas Best Corp. (1987 revenues: $732 million), a firm engaged in trucking as well as furniture and tire manufacturing...
...graduate of Duke and Harvard Business School, Pearlman worked two years for Plaza Securities, the firm of Corporate Raider Asher Edelman. Says Pearlman: "I don't think that age is the most important factor. It's doing your homework and understanding what needs to be done." Evidently, Wall Street agrees. Bankers Trust has offered Pearlman financing worth $120 million, proving that it thinks the young man's takeover is anything but kid stuff...
...resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi and calls Janie "Monkey." Her father (Stephen Pearlman) is a nice guy with all the charisma of Muzak in a minor key; her mother (Betty Comden) is a danceaholic who can't let go of her baby. Janie knows how to make her mother happy: by phoning to say, "I just got married, lost 20 pounds and became...
...more consistently effective when she puts faces with the numbers of the dead. The face of one corpse has been carved to look like a cross. Others have had their mouths filled with dirt or their own genitals. There are recountings of the killings of American Agricultural Advisers Mark Pearlman and Michael Hammer in the dining room of the Hotel Sheraton, the same place where Free lance Writer John Sullivan was last seen alive. She reminds us of the four North American churchwomen who were murdered in 1980, the 50 students killed when government troops attacked the National University...
...council's investigation does find any misuse, the funds might revert back to the city. "The shoe would be on the other foot," Pearlman said...