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...when the lease expired, a new minister had taken over and he refused to renew it. The indignant oilmen thereupon protested to the local American ambassador, who informed the Justice Department. The department in turn obtained a federal court injunction in 1979 preventing the men from violating the Corrupt Practices Act, which was by then...
...shares out of approximately 26 million voted at the annual meeting of company stockholders in 1978. Then, five months later, a federal court set aside that decision saying that shareholders might have been unduly influenced by the last-minute court battle that had preceded it, and ordered another vote. Thereupon, the copper company negotiated a signed truce with Berner. Under its terms, Berner was given three seats on the 18-person Kennecott board of directors in exchange for a promise not to launch another proxy contest before the May 1981 annual meeting...
...however, Muse and Southwest had a falling out. Muse wanted to expand by starting up operations at Chicago's Midway Airport, but Southwest's board of directors balked because it considered the strategy too expensive and risky. Muse thereupon quit. But in the past two years he has made plans to raise $32 million for MuseAir, of which he will be chairman. Says he defiantly: "This time I'm not going to get caught between a bunch of knuckleheads who don't know their asses from first base...
...board includes such top business leaders as Burroughs Corp. Chairman Paul S. Mirabito, G.D. Searle President and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Equitable Life Chief Executive Coy G. Eklund. Moreover, Agee himself came under fire from the board for his handling of the situation. Cunningham, thereupon, quickly stepped down and issued a statement that rumors "impaired my ability to carry out my responsibilities as a corporate officer of Bendix...
...last decade. They are impressed by it, and before long their lives imitate cinematic art. Margot Kidder turns up in Washington Square Park to play the Jeanne Moreau role in their lives, and in due course they establish their own -not ménage à trois-trilateral commission. Thereupon their lives are laid out in tedious, unedifying detail...