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Observes Geoffrey Boisi, 36, a top mergermaker at Goldman Sachs: "We're a psychiatrist, a father confessor, a coach as well as a financial architect. Sometimes we have to be the bastards in the background who hold the line." When Pennzoil offered $112.50 a share for Getty Oil last January, Boisi was convinced the bid was too low. So beginning at 7:30 one morning, he phoned six U.S. oil companies and the government of Saudi Arabia to find another buyer. Within 48 hours, Texaco responded with a higher offer. When Pennzoil, advised by Lazard...
David ended up in Massachusetts General Hospital with bacterial endocarditis, an infection of the lining of the heart. It is sometimes caused by using dirty needles to inject drugs. After that, according to Collier and Horowitz, a psychiatrist agreed to prescribe the painkiller Percodan in order to keep him away from heroin. David took up other drugs as well-cocaine and Dilaudid. Bobby was arrested in South Dakota last year for possession of heroin, and entered a drug-treatment program...
...find himself and his old form he tried everything and anything. He trained less. He consulted a psychiatrist. Now a born-again Christian, he sought help in prayer. His wife Molly tried to get him to do "a little mellowing." But nothing seemed to help. Recalls Salazar: "I was just real uptight for a real long time, not just about running, but my daily life...
While conceding that the Disney Channel has positive educational shows, Coalition Chairman Thomas Radecki, a University of Illinois psychiatrist, claims its violence can be harmful to children. Disney Channel President James Jimirro replies that the channel has received widespread praise from parents and teachers and only six complaints about violence out of 30,000 letters. Or, as Donald might...
Irregular schedules, constant travel across time zones and other forms of stress have been known to lower the defenses of the body's immune system against bacteria and viruses. What is more, says Psychiatrist Charles F. Stroebel, director of Connecticut's Institute for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Medicine, the Democratic candidates, pushed to their limits for months, could experience "significant emotional and physical problems with the letdown after the campaign." This "after-the-battle phenomenon," as Stroebel calls it, "has been widely observed in terms of how stress makes us sick." But politicians are tough, and the current...