Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal way to amass a controlling majority of a company's stock is a tender offer or a proxy fight. But takeover by tender has become much more expensive because stock prices have risen more than 50% on the average since August in the ongoing bull market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed last week at a record 1226.20. Buying a controlling interest may have been possible a year ago for only a few million dollars; now the price could be much higher...
...weeks ago, the Sotheby's board flatly rejected a $90 million tender offer made by Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid through their company, Knoll International Holdings. Based in Saddle Brook, N.J., Knoll is part of a conglomerate that makes office furniture and carpet backing. Echoing their management's disdain for the Americans, Sotheby's art experts have threatened to quit en masse if the takeover occurs...
...redneck racism prevalent in the Alabama farm country where he was born in 1900. "Why, I was full grown," says Pepper, the eldest of four children, "before I ever traveled on a paved road." Whatever the reason, he felt the stir of ambition early on: at the tender age often, he carved the words CLAUDE PEPPER, UNITED STATES SENATOR on a tree...
...that if this were to have taken three months instead of one, it might have turned out differently. Agee did not pay any attention to us. If he had, he would have sensed how indignant we were right off. He never came to see me. His letter announcing the tender offer was a gun at my head...
...from Snowy River," a recently released Australian film based on the epic poetry of A. B. Paterson, fails because it attempts too much. The brainchild of producer Geoff Burrowes, the film tries to weave together a tender love story between two strong-willed youngsters separated by their differing social milieus ("Love Story"); a paean to the majesty and beauty of the wild mountain horse ("The Black Stallion"); and a moving tale of a young boy's physical and emotional passage to manhood ("Breaking Away"). The result is a collage of ill-connected scenes and cliched dialogue that waste an admittedly...