Word: knightly
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...Getty Board Member Henry Wendt testified that the offer of $110 a share by Pennzoil's Liedtke was "hostile" and said the board had rejected it on Jan. 2. Miller argued that Getty's board had felt trapped by Pennzoil's offer and sought out a so-called white knight to be a friendlier merger partner...
...Hollywood's based on taking care of business," he says. "We get it done. We make it happen. For me the bottom line is getting the result I'm asked to give." Among his 90 or so celebrity clients: John Travolta, Arm-Margret, Christopher Reeve, Linda Evans, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider), Olivia Newton-John, Dyan Cannon and Billy Crystal (who presumably would not look mahvelous without...
...effort announced yesterday will be bankrolled by the Carnegie Corporation and the Knight Foundation for the first two years. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and the chiefs of the four other participating universities have pledged to provide funding for a third year if there are clear signs that the initiative is achieving its goals...
...news industry finds itself in an “untenable situation”—plagued by “malaise you can cut with a knife,” said Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation and formerly an Emmy Award-winning reporter for PBS’ “Frontline...
There’s a scene in “Episode III” depicting foot-soldiers turning on one Jedi knight after another, cutting these soldiers of good down at a word from the Chancellor. I was immediately reminded of the way the press—and anyone else who speaks out against the status quo—is being offered up for sacrifice by the government, and the way Americans are joining the witch hunt without asking questions...