Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Texaco, third-largest oil company in the U.S. (1982 revenues: $48 billion), snatched 14th-ranked Getty ($12.3 billion) from the embrace of a much smaller suitor, Pennzoil ($2.3 billion). Only three days earlier, before Texaco jumped into the bidding, Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke and Gordon Getty had sealed a $5.2 billion deal to buy up Getty Oil's stock jointly for $112.50 a share and make the company a private firm. But then came Texaco with an irresistible offer of $125 a share. The Texaco price will bring Getty heirs almost $4 billion; a month ago, their shares...
...Astrampsychus (circa A.D. 350): "Gladness of mind shows that you will live abroad"; and Napoleon 's Book of Fate (circa 1860): "For a young woman to dream that she is embraced by a gorilla means that she will have one of the handsomest and wisest men for a suitor...
What Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau envisioned as "modest Games," budgeted for $200 million, turned out to cost about $1.5 billion and left behind a deficit of $1 billion. Moscow spent $9 billion. Emboldened by its position as the only suitor, the Los Angeles committee proposed to cut a revolutionary deal with the I.O.C. The citizens of Los Angeles have amended the city charter to make sure taxpayers could not be charged for the Games. So the I.O.C. would just have to waive its fundamental rule of awarding the franchise to a city and instead hand it over to a board...
...Aeneas' mother, who simply wants to guarantee her son's physical safety in a potentially hostile land. The goddess did not guess the damage her meddling would cause to Aeneas' reputation. But Fitzgerald's translation makes vivid the sufferings of both Dido and her anointed suitor: "Duty-bound,/ Aeneas, though he struggled with desire/ To calm and comfort her in all her pain." And he, "shaken still/ With love of her, yet took the course heaven gave him/ And went back to the fleet." However paraphrased, this brand of heroism is easier to admire than love...
...share, however, brought wails of indignation from Wall Street investors. They accused Mahoney of exploiting Norton Simon's depressed share price, which results from the company's recent lackluster performance, to shortchange shareholders. In anticipation of a sweeter deal from either Norton Simon or another suitor, the company's stock traded feverishly last week, closing...