Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman George Zipf originally rejected both suitors but came to believe that it was better for the company to merge with McDermott, a somewhat smaller firm, than to be swallowed by United. McDermott* was able to bid high because its enormously profitable offshore drilling operations gave it $533 million in cash at the end of 1976. In the heat of the struggle, professional arbitragers -speculators who like to gamble on takeovers-picked up an estimated quarter of B & W's shares. To persuade them to sell to McDermott rather than United, B & W arranged a tasty lagniappe: a special...
...magazine has recovered somewhat this year; first-quarter ad pages were ahead 30% and newsstand sales were up 10%, though total circulation is down a bit, to 1 million. The new management hopes to extend that rally-and make Esquire more timely-by shortening its Rip Van Winklesque lead time (the January issue is now in preparation) and doubling the magazine's frequency. Felker, 51, is tight-lipped about what else may mark his reign, but emphatic about what will not. Still smarting from his takeover by Murdoch, he has worked out an agreement with Harmsworth, whose firm...
...April 29,13 days after Lance's visit to Manufacturers Hanover Trust, NBG deposited $250,000 there. The amount in this interest-free account reached a high of $1.1 million in 1976-a sum conceded to be "somewhat excessive" by one of the Georgia bank's officials in a letter to the comptroller. Yet NBG officials also noted that their bank's earlier correspondent relationship with New York's Citibank had been unsatisfactory. According to one memo, "Manufacturers Hanover was much more responsive to the needs of Southern correspondents...
...black, many Hispanics and more than a few poor whites belong to the underclass. Among the most glaring subgroups: the Appalachian migrants to dilapidated neighborhoods of some cities, the Chicanos of the Los Angeles slums, the Puerto Ricans of Spanish Harlem. But the Hispanics appear to be moving ahead somewhat faster; 55% of the nation's blacks, v. 49% of the Spanish-speaking minorities, still live in the mostly depressed areas of central cities. The black concentration in the cities seems fated to increase because the birth rate among blacks is 51% higher than among whites. There are other reasons...
...corporate activity that the stock market's sag has not discouraged is the big takeover. Quite the contrary: partly because share prices are low, the number of multimillion-dollar mergers is rising. W.T. Grimm, a Chicago firm of merger consultants, counts a somewhat lower total number of mergers and acquisitions so far in 1977 than a year ago, but in the first six months of this year it found 20 cases in which a company proposed to pay $100 million or more for control of another firm, as compared with twelve bids of that size in the same...