Word: wasserstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's first steps was to summon its group of outside advisers. They included: Bruce Wasserstein and Joseph Perella, investment bankers with First Boston Corp., a Wall Street firm; Joseph Flom, a lawyer with the New York firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Richard Cheney, a public relations expert with New York's Hill & Knowlton, who directed the media campaign that helped McGraw-Hill block the attempt by American Express to take it over...
Mobil, another Conoco suitor, has hired the merger team of Merrill Lynch White Weld, which is headed by Carl Ferenbach, 39. Du Pont has retained the services of First Boston Corp., whose merger mentors, Joseph Perella, 39, and Bruce Wasserstein, 33, last March masterminded Fluor's $2.7 billion purchase of St. Joe Minerals. Their fee for that deal: $3.5 million. If Du Pont wins Conoco's hand, First Boston could pocket as much as $15 million. But even if some other firm walks off the winner, First Boston will still claim a $750,000 loser...
FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when women at Mount Holyoke College learned to curtsy as well as to read Baudelaire, every graduating class was acutely aware of its uncommon talents and training, and seniors felt they had to choose missions in life before graduation. Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others recreates that era with humor and even affection, but somewhat pedantically shows that the transition between discovering one's talents and choosing one's mission is tenuous at best...
...humor, but short on tension and meaning. Director Steve Drury maintains a quick pace by emphasizing punchy one-liners and alternating settings, but it is a peculiar quickness without tension. The audience merely waits from one witty remark to the next without expecting or hoping for any particular action. Wasserstein's views come across, but not forcefully, and they seem less relevant to life at Harvard than they ought...