Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Persuaded that KKR was the winner, directors summoned Kravis to a conference room at about 9 p.m. to complete the deal. The real brawl, however, was just beginning. "This game is not played by Marquis of Queensberry rules," said a Johnson adviser. "There really are no rules for this kind of auction...
...movies and Broadway. On Geffen Records, the debut album by rockers Guns N' Roses was ranked No. 4 on last week's Billboard chart. The Geffen film division scored this year's sleeper hit, the comic ghost story Beetlejuice; Geffen Theater co-produced M. Butterfly, the 1988 Tony Award winner for best play...
While the P.L.O. appeared to be the winner in the diplomatic skirmish, the Reagan Administration emerged as a clear loser. Rarely had the U.S. been the target of such overwhelming international criticism. Even Washington's most loyal allies in Western Europe lined up against Shultz, challenging the legality and the political soundness of his position. While Britain abstained from both U.N. votes, British officials made it clear that they too favored an Arafat appearance before the U.N. Israel alone stood with Washington, casting the only other no vote and hailing Shultz's refusal as a "brave decision...
...much of the past year, candidates in both parties vied over who would be best able to "sit across the table from Gorbachev." Now the winner will have to do so sooner than he would have preferred. On issues where he may prove more flexible than Reagan -- such as the Strategic Defense Initiative and a compromise in Central America -- Bush does not want to seem to be breaking ( ranks before he is even inaugurated. Therefore the Vice President would rather have stayed in Washington this week, and he resisted the Soviets' request for a separate, one-on-one meeting...
...only then, adds media man David Garth, can the eventual nominee deny Jackson co-winner status at the national convention. "If you really have treated him like the white candidates," says Garth, "you can then say, 'We beat you fair and square, now get lost...