Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Someone forgot to finish the rink. Who left that wall open...
Secondary: It's a shot to centerfield. Charters is going back, back, back. He's up against the wall. Interception. Free safety Tom Charters, the centerfielder on Penn's baseball team, leads the club in interceptions with five. He can hit the curveball...
Under the guidance of Kravis and Roberts, KKR has become a Wall Street steamroller. Its biggest buyouts include the Beatrice food conglomerate for $6.2 billion and the Safeway grocery chain for $4.5 billion. But while KKR is well known as an investment adviser, few people realize that it has become one of the largest industrial holding companies in America. Though KKR readily sells off pieces of the firms it buys, it usually retains some core businesses. Of the 35 companies it has acquired, KKR still has control of 23. As a result, KKR has become a huge conglomerate. The companies...
...table, but the Shearson team was preparing a new bid. Ultimately, RJR Nabisco's board of directors, which includes such outsiders as Charles Hugel, president of Combustion Engineering and Martin Davis, chairman of Gulf & Western, will probably have the final say on who, if anyone, buys the company. Some Wall Streeters think the financing will prove so difficult that KKR and Shearson will have to work together. In a conciliatory move on Friday, KKR said it would not press for selling off the tobacco division...
Then there were the problems posed by nature. In October last year, a downpour sent near record floodwaters roaring along the spectacular gorge of the Williams, over the wall protecting the powerhouse and down into the turbine level. The water in the powerhouse fouled the turbine equipment and the vital compressors, which power the hydraulic systems, with stones and silt. The compressors had to be completely rebuilt...