Word: roderick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pittsburgh-based USX, the steel and energy giant (1985 sales: $19.2 billion), the threat was only the latest in a series of battles. Amid a lengthy steel strike, its first since 1959, and menaced for weeks by speculative stock buying and takeover rumors, the company headed by Chairman David Roderick, 62, faced an $8 billion buyout offer from Carl Icahn, 50, chairman of Trans World Airlines. At week's end it was unclear whether Icahn sought control of USX or merely wanted to pocket a hefty profit for his efforts...
...Steel, to be drastically undervalued: its stock price in no way reflects its $21 billion in assets, which include $13.2 billion worth of oil and gas holdings. Many of those energy ventures, like the $6 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick a fight with the United Steelworkers over pay-and-benefit concessions. The resulting 16-plant walkout, involving some 22,000 U.S.W. members, has been ugly at times; strikers have...
...legislation that moves the Faculty...it is the atmosphere raised by the issue,” Roderick L. MacFarquhar, then-chair of the government department, said to The Crimson...
...legislation that moves the Faculty...it is the atmosphere raised by the issue,” Roderick L. MacFarquhar, then-chair of the government department, said to The Crimson...
When Harvard and The Crimson argue in front of the SJC later this year, they will face a court with close ties to Harvard. Four of the seven justices—Roderick L. Ireland, Judith A. Cowan, Robert J. Cordy, and chief justice Margaret H. Marshall—graduated from Harvard Law School...