Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critic," says Aikman, "had not prepared me for the gracious host who bounded out of the house to greet me." The author's wife Natalya and their son Stepan, 15, listened in as Aikman conducted the 2 1/2-hour interview in Russian. When it was over, Aikman was invited to share an informal family lunch: Russian blinchiki (crepes stuffed with ground beef) prepared by Natalya...
Beyond its impact on the opposing sides, the case tested a crucial aspect of the takeover binge that has raged through U.S. industry during the 1980s. By originally bidding $175 a share for Time and then raising the price to $200, Paramount contended that it was offering Time shareholders a rich reward for selling their stock. But Time insisted it was not for sale and that it could eventually boost the value of its shares well above $200 after acquiring Warner. The battle pitted against each other two contradictory interests that have been at war throughout the takeover...
...stay of the Time-Warner merger while Paramount appeals to the Delaware Supreme Court, which agreed to consider briefs throughout this week and hear the final arguments in the case ! on July 24. The appeal prevented Time from purchasing 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares in a $70-per-share tender that had been scheduled to expire this week. Time would acquire the remaining Warner shares later for cash and securities...
Wall Street had anticipated the Delaware ruling, sending Time's share price tumbling for several weeks on growing speculation that the company would stave off the Paramount bid. Time stock finished trading Friday at 145 1/4, down 6 1/4 points for the week but at the general level where analysts expect it to settle, at least briefly, if the Time-Warner deal goes through. Warner stock closed at 64 1/2, up 2 3/4, on the increased likelihood that Time would be able to carry out its tender offer. Paramount, which has been rumored to be a possible takeover target itself...
...chapters came from the fact that, with the years, I understood that the movement toward revolution and its causes could not be understood simply in terms of World War I, 1914. My initial conception was one that the majority of those in the West and East today share, namely that the main decisive event was the so-called October Revolution and its consequences. But it became clear to me gradually that the main and decisive event was not the October Revolution, and that it wasn't a revolution at all. What we mean by revolution is a massive spontaneous event...