Word: ackerman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share in an emotional payoff...
Asked why a new member has not been picked after a four-month vacancy, the other landlord representative, Ackerman, said she assumes Healy has "been very, very busy" with other issues. She said some of the applicants had introduced themselves to the board and met with its executive director, but the final decision is "at Healy's discretion...
...Healy runs the show," explained Ackerman. Until he makes his decision, she added, "we just wait...
...Harvard's paying for one class of people to get free legal advice, they should either subsidize groups to represent landlords or tell students to change the group," Ackerman-Eaton said...