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Only a small number of Charter Club members were involved in the Fairfax ploy, members said...
Siegel allegedly passed the information on to Wigton and Tabor. According to the charges, that duo then embarked on some sophisticated dealing for the brokerage's private trading account, based on their assumptions of how the stock market would react to the Unocal ploy. The twosome allegedly bought put options that allowed Kidder, Peabody to sell Unocal stock at a future date for a preset price that subsequently earned a handsome premium for the seller. The brokerage firm is said to have made "millions of dollars of illegal profits" on that and other transactions...
...might leave the National Party if they could help take over the government. This strategy received some support last month when Wynand Malan, one of the best known of them, announced that he was resigning from the party and would run as an independent candidate. But Eglin's ploy still seems a long shot. No other M.P.s joined Malan in leaving the party, and he said that he would not join the P.F.P. "because there are too many things in the party philosophy with which I do not agree...
...twist in The Counterlife is more confusing and shocking than the old "Alice has been dreaming" ploy, because Roth plays with the reader's fundamental desire to accept the world on the pages of the book. It somehow leaves the reader with an empty feeling to discover that Roth has published a novel written by one of his fictional characters. Yet this duality provides an insight into Roth's own mind...
...though, it was a relatively simple ploy that dashed Icahn's hopes. USX had borrowed $3.4 billion last year under terms that allowed the lenders to call in their loans immediately if the company were taken over. At the end of December, Roderick cleverly decided to use up these funds to pay off other debts. If Icahn had gained control of USX, the banks could have demanded repayment. That in effect raised the cost of taking over the company from about $7.1 billion to $10.5 billion...