Word: waldorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kluge, already friends, exchanged pleasantries; before long, Kluge was sounding out Murdoch and Davis about selling them Metromedia's string of television stations. A discussion over dinner led the following day to serious talks, which eventually led to marathon meetings in Kluge's apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers. As the hard-driving Murdoch described the complex bargaining that followed, "You find things you don't expect, you shout, you scream...
...Lars T Waldorf, a senior in Dunster House, is former editor in chief of The Harvard Salient...
...meetings of the commission or of Chrysler's board, Iacocca comes to New York about three times a month. He stays in the company's three-room suite at the Waldorf Towers. In Boca Raton, Fla., he owns a condominium (with five bathrooms) overlooking the Atlantic. But much of his time he spends at home in Bloomfield Hills, a sylvan suburb northwest of Detroit...
...researchers will formally accept their prizes at a luncheon at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April...
Once he is ready to launch the final takeover battle, Pickens sets up a command post at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria or Helmsley Palace hotels. From there, he directs the action like a general, keeping in round-the-clock touch with allies and moneymen across the country. "He's incredibly well plugged in," says a Wall Street financier. "One of his great strengths is that he has more sources than anyone." Notes an investment banker: "He's an absolutely brilliant poker player, though there's a little chess in his game...