Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fresh burst of takeover cross fire rattled through corporate boardrooms last week as acquirers battled for control of companies that make everything from bath towels (West Point Pepperell) to cake mixes (Pillsbury). Costliest of all was the struggle for RJR Nabisco (1987 revenues: $16 billion), whose price tag set a record with each new offer. Top RJR Nabisco executives, backed by Wall Street's Shearson Lehman Hutton and Salomon Brothers, raised their bid from $17.6 billion to $21 billion, topping the rival offer of $20.6 billion from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the high-flying leveraged-buyout firm. Now the two sides...
...costliest campaign in Americanhistory, and just one piece of it, a series ofCalifornia ballot initiatives, had a price tag ofmore than $100 million...
...manageable level -- and pick up enormous profits along the way -- by selling off parts of the company piecemeal. In the case of RJR Nabisco, the total market value of popular individual brands like Oreo cookies and Winston cigarettes may be far higher than the $20 billion price tag for the company as a whole...
...Fallon becomes a possible vice presidential candidate. But he's unqualified and vapid and young and his main attribute is his good looks. Sound familiar? The Bush/Quayle campaign quickly denounced the series. They managed to get the network to drop the "from today's headlines" tag, and a network affiliate in Indiana dropped the show...
...make sure that the players would not start playing during timeouts. the officials assumed the TV timeout position. Each official stood still at a certain part of the field with his hands behind his back as if he was playing Freeze Tag. They wouldn't budge until the Total Sports Network gave the signal to resume play...