Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that another investment group had amassed a 4.9% stake in the company and might make a takeover bid. NWA promptly rejected the overture. While the unidentified group has not been heard from since, word of its interest apparently helped draw Davis into the contest. His bid pushed NWA's stock price from 68 1/4 in late March to 88 3/4 at the end of last week...
...takeover artists ready to breach the clubby confines of the Tokyo stock market? In what appears to be the first direct hostile raid on a Japanese company by a foreigner, T. Boone Pickens disclosed last week, the Texas-based corporate raider has accumulated a 20% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a key supplier of car parts to Toyota...
While Pickens is now Koito's largest shareholder, analysts doubt that the Texan can take over the company. Reason: most of Koito's shares lie firmly in the hands of corporate allies who rarely sell their holdings. Since Japanese companies are not allowed to own their own stock, Pickens might try to sell his stake to one of Koito's allies. The Texan claims he simply saw Koito as a company with potential for improvement. Says he: "We want to work with Koito. New blood often helps...
...Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut, with shells tearing into houses, apartment buildings, schools and even hospitals. Ambulances careen through deserted streets scooping up bodies sliced by shrapnel. During early-morning lulls, men scurry out to buy increasingly scarce bread and bottled water. Then they stop at pharmacies to stock up on tranquilizers to help them get through the next barrage...
...Vitali Korotich; he irritates them more than anything else, and now the hosts of the 'loyal and prudent' are marching on him . . . No matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans of worthless money, the fury of poverty, hunger and homelessness, of ethnic hostility and contempt -- all this is bursting forth from the depths and is being channeled against the intelligentsia, which have ungratefully forgotten that under the Genius of All Times and Peoples prices went...