Word: splits
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...Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate steel and energy issues -- an agreement that went into effect barely a week before Icahn's abrupt withdrawal from USX. The take from Icahn's sale was more than $1 billion -- impressive on paper, yet a measly 25% return on his investment over five years. Icahn...
...women in black were looking for extra redemption in their competition against Princeton. The Tigers had beaten them out at Nationals last year, as well as earlier this year, so the split-second loss was particularly painful...
With prestige and profits at stake, the dispute became a standoff. Finally, in 1987 the French and U.S. governments agreed that the two labs should share credit and split the royalties generated by patented AIDS blood tests. But doubts remained. A lengthy investigation in 1989 by the Chicago Tribune raised once again the possibility that Gallo had stolen his competitor's work and prompted Michigan Congressman John Dingell to call upon the NIH to investigate Gallo for possible misconduct...
...quarterly National Interest. It was in that journal two years ago that Francis Fukuyama fretted over the "end of history" and thus provided a slogan for cold warriors' dismay at the waning of the all-defining struggle and the surrender of the essential enemy. Since then, the right has split into isolationist and internationalist camps. In the pages of this slim volume the two sides square off for intellectual combat of a high order...
Harvard, despite being knocked out of ECAC playoff contention by losses to Princeton and a split with Cornell last weekend, still has a shot to finish in second place in the EIBL...