Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penn's offensive line played bang-up football, shoving the ball down Harvard's throat for 557 total yards (340 rushing, 217 passing). The front wall opened holes the size of moon craters for running back Bryan Keys (28 carries for 178 yards and three touchdowns) while giving ready-to-run quarterback Malcolm Glover (14 of 22 passes, 217 yards and a touchdown) ample time to pick the Crimson secondary apart...
...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 may be getting new competition. At week's end Forstmann Little, a Manhattan...
Even in the frenzied world of Wall Street dealmakers, speculator Salim ("Sandy") Lewis stood out as a talkaholic with a penchant for dispensing advice and hatching colorful schemes. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan charged Lewis with manipulating stock in an apparent attempt to help out American Express and its chairman, James Robinson, a longtime Lewis friend...
Perhaps so, but Stempel's presence alone -- his booming voice and avuncular manner -- motivates workers and soothes many Wall Street analysts. When Stempel left as head of GM's European operations in 1982 after a 17-month stint, union delegates at West Germany's Russelsheim plant gave him a ceramic wine pitcher as a symbol of the warm relations he fostered with the rank and file. Detroit's unions appreciate him too. Donald Ephlin, head of the United Auto Workers' GM unit, prizes the president's accessibility. Says Ephlin: "If I have things to bring to his attention...
...deliver the desired image, both campaigns shielded their men from spontaneous contact with the press, arranging instead a series of colorful, staged-for-TV events. On most days the strategy worked. "TV producers are like nymphomaniacs when it comes to visuals," explains Albert Hunt, Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. "Television's insatiable need for pretty pictures has cheapened the campaign...