Word: war
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle cry of all raiders is to "maximize shareholder value," but few of them blew the trumpets like Edelman. In 1987 he taught a business course at Columbia University that he aptly dubbed "The Art of War." Edelman offered $100,000 to any student who could find a mismanaged company for the professor to chew up. Columbia nixed the offer, but Edelman's image as a buccaneer flourished. That same year he served as a role model for the fiendishly greedy Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. "I hunched in my seat as I watched that movie," says Edelman...
Edelman got a taste of his own tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
...year ago this week, in what may be the most important speech ever delivered before the U. N. General Assembly, Gorbachev put on a bravura performance of what he calls new political thinking and set an agenda for a post-cold-war world order. He proclaimed a benevolent decimation of the Soviet armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated...
David Lambertson, a State Department official specializing in East Asian and Pacific affairs, said it was U.S. policy to bring about a "comprehensive settlement" of the war by verifing Vietnamese troop withdrawal, eliminating the political power of the Khmer Rouge and letting the Cambodian people determine their future...
...Current policy illogically supports a civilwar to support a formula that is supposed to end acivil war," said Hawk. He said any treaty thatincorporates the Khmer Rouge into a transitionalgovernment would allow the group to "be back withguns through the legitimate organs of the state...