Word: suede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disney Chairman Raymond Watson, 57, and President Ronald Miller, 51, then established their first line of defense. The strategy was to buy up other companies in order to diminish Steinberg's share of Disney. On May 17, Disney agreed to buy Arvida, a Florida-based land-development firm, in...
Businessman Barry Gottlieb, 34, is the scourge of preppiedom. First he designed a belly-up alligator that poked fun at the celebrated reptile on Izod Lacoste shirts. Its name: the Croc O' Shirt. Unamused, Izod Lacoste sued, and Gottlieb's Mad Dog Productions (1983 sales: $300,000) agreed...
Perhaps such a man should never have had a daughter. Simenon hints that D. made a sexual advance toward Marie-Jo during the child's eleventh year; when the book was published in France, D. sued successfully to have two passages making this charge explicit suppressed. Whatever the facts...
Steinberg had sued to block the deal, saying that Disney paid too much for Arvida in an at tempt to stop a takeover. If the sale occurs, about 25% of Disney stock will be in the hands of shareholders friendly to management, hurting Steinberg's plan to gain control...
The much publicized case pitted Atlanta's most influential law firm, King & Spalding, against Elizabeth Anderson Hishon, who worked for the firm from 1972 to 1979 as an associate. She was forced to leave under the so-called "up or out" rule, after she was twice considered and rejected...