Word: william
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Street speculators camped outside a quiet office in the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington. They were anxiously awaiting the outcome of one of the most intensely watched corporate takeover fights in the 197-year history of the court. When clerks appeared at 10:30 with copies of Chancellor William Allen's 79-page ruling, the aggressive crowd tore the documents from the court officials' hands. Dialing their offices, moneymen shouted into their cellular phones, "The Time-Warner merger...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
Before long, the man from nowhere (he was, in fact, briefly a reporter for ABC in Viet Nam, and was said to have ties to Asian businessmen who were paying for his house, two bodyguards and Mercedes) had reportedly been host to John Mitchell and William Casey, journalists Ted Koppel and William Safire, and several Congressmen. By 1982 he had served enough lamb chops to merit a profile in the New York Times. The story trumpeted his ability to open doors all over town, even though the paper could not quite put its finger on who he was. It called...
...complete the circle of neglect, Congress failed to monitor the enormous agency closely. For one thing, since hearings drew scant coverage, members of Congress sought public attention elsewhere. For another, the lawful political benefits of the pork barrel may have tempered criticism of HUD. Former Senator William Proxmire, who was chairman of the HUD subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, applauds the current congressional probe of the agency. Says he: "That's what we should have been doing. We didn...