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...lost 17 of my choicest men," he said...
Whether it involves finding a buyer for a company like Esmark or plotting the hostile takeover of an unsuspecting firm, mergermaking has become perhaps the choicest job in American finance. "This is the era of the superstars in the merger and acquisition world," says Ivan Boesky, the merger investment specialist. "You've got perhaps ten men guiding the future of corporate America...
...city moneymen reach across state lines in search of the choicest markets...
...their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders and 16 pornographic tapes, then charged viewers $5 admission (about four days' wages for the average urban worker...
...choicest cuts in the carving up of the Bell System is a matter of intense debate among industry analysts. Some feel that AT&T walked off with what was really important in the network, leaving only one-third of the revenue-generating capability to the operating companies. Says Cornell's Kahn: "AT&T won by losing." Others believe the local companies have bright futures and good potential in their markets, although there are doubts as to just how eager their top managers, mostly old telephone-company men with decades of doing things the Bell way, are to enter...