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...since his corporate-raider days in the 1980s, when he made millions of dollars buying stock and forcing asset sales, stock buybacks and special dividends by the likes of Texaco and Phillips Petroleum. In the '90s, with notable exceptions like RJR Nabisco (in which he bought a stake and pushed the company to break up), he operated more quietly, in beaten-down areas of the bond market. But now he's back on the big stage rattling major corporations--and loving...
Before, I felt like I hadn't reached the place that I needed to be. After Lucky [in 2004], I felt, I can do it now. I felt like this is a nice place to put a stake in. It was kind of fortuitous that the cancer diagnosis came [when it did]--it made it even more of a milestone...
...Harvard held about 20 percent of the Korea Fund when it sold its stake at the end of August...
Harvard’s size, Sloan writes, enabled it to capitalize on the deal and sell its stake at a price much closer to the value of the fund’s assets per share...
...will jointly announce legislation intended to reduce medical errors and malpractice costs. And while he may not be as loud as he has been in the last few weeks, Obama is looking for other opportunities to make his mark?selectively. "If an issue of justice or equality is at stake,? he says, ?I will speak...