Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comparison, Harvard goaltender and Tri-Captain Jen White was hardly tested. She only had to turn back 16 Elis shots...
...words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again and again, Turner hammered at his main theme: "Mr. Mulroney wants to turn us into the 51st state...
...directors' invitation attracted a third and scrappy new bidder who helped turn the fight into a virtual Who's Who of finance and industry. Assembled by the First Boston investment firm, the group of newcomers included Jay Pritzker, the Chicago-based chairman of Hyatt Corp., his wealthy family and Philip Anschutz, a Denver oil billionaire. First Boston also wooed Harry Gray, the retired chairman of United Technologies, and several other high- rolling investors. The group came into the bidding with a show-stopping but tentative offer of cash and securities worth up to $26.8 billion, or $118 a share...
...fight for RJR Nabisco, that seems to have happened in spectacular fashion. No matter how the battle turns out, the unseemly scramble for riches has, for the moment at least, given overreaching a bad name. In the end, the RJR brouhaha may turn out to be a useful testing of the limits: of greed, of debt, of dealmaking. The resulting outcry may prove an effective regulating device. "In its own way, the deal has been typically American, where nothing is in moderation, including the enormous selfishness of management," notes James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner. "It's touched a nerve...
Experts have said the University may turn a 30 percent profit on its share in the buyout. Harvard also stands to benefit from its ownership of RJR stock, which has nearly doubled in value since the takeover bidding began five weeks...