Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Including some future stockholders. Callaway took his company public in February 1992. The stock market hasn't seen anything quite like it since. He offered 3 million shares at $20 a share. Twenty-seven minutes later, the stock hit a stunning $36 a share. It has since split 2 for 1, and was selling last week at $57. "In a lousy economy, we've been quite an impressive little company," boasts Callaway. Bink...
...familiar fashion, the Clinton Administration has devised a split-the- difference plan -- this one dealing with the nation's wetlands -- that has something to please and displease everyone. The policy will protect all of Alaska's more than 100 million acres of marshes, riverbanks and the like and close loopholes that would have let developers build in otherwise protected areas. But the compromise will also permit farmers who filled in their wetlands before 1985 to keep working their land...
...face. His problem is that he has two of them. His right profile has been grossly disfigured in an auto accident, but the opposite side is pure Mel Gibson, handsome and, you'll be relieved to know, getting most of the screen time. It symbolizes, pretty obviously, a deeper split in his personality, the unmarked side representing the idealistic young teacher he once was, the twisted side the bitter recluse he has become...
Markoe and Letterman split up five years ago and no longer speak. Letterman expresses no bitterness and praises Markoe as "the smartest, funniest woman I've ever been around." Markoe, who is now writing books, says she hasn't watched Letterman's show since the breakup and "won't even talk to people about working on another late-night show. I have no interest in helping any other white man in a suit do an inventive show. Let them all find their own damn inventive shows...
...Robert, who was becoming eager to succeed his father as Dart chairman, clashed with him over plans to expand a single store. While Herbert wanted to increase the company's Total Beverage liquor operations, Robert pointed out that the only existing Total outlet was operating at a loss. The split widened in May when Gloria Haft, 66, defended her son at a Crown Books meeting and beseeched her husband to end the quarrel...