Word: three-way
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hectic scene marked the latest and most dramatic stage of a three-way battle that has captured the attention of everyone from billion-dollar money & managers to Hollywood movie directors. At issue before Judge Allen was an effort by Paramount Communications to block Time Inc. from acquiring Warner Communications in a $14 billion friendly merger that would create the world's largest information and entertainment company. If the judge had granted Paramount's motion, which was joined by several major Time shareholders, Paramount could have pressed ahead with its hostile bid to acquire Time for $12 billion. But after...
...Paramount the licenses and franchise rights for cable- TV units operated by Time's 82%-owned American Television and Communications. Getting approval for such transfers "would be difficult even without a hostile bid," says Ross, "but now we'll be challenging them every inch of the way." As the three-way takeover battle wears on, it is likely to be fought in just that contentious manner -- in the courts, the stock market and the corporate trenches...
February 24-25: The cagers top Yale, 80-72, to enter a three-way tie the Ivy League lead. They follow with a win over Brown...
...League's top two golf teams were on hand yesterday in a three-way season-opening match between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
...diplomatic stakes are high for the U.S., which finds itself caught in a three-way tug-of-war between two allies who distrust each other. New Delhi still resents the pro-Pakistan "tilt" that has marked U.S. policy since the 1971 war. U.S. military aid to Pakistan is cited by Indians as the main reason why they embarked on their own buildup...