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- <text id=91TT1149>
- <title>
- May 27, 1991: Business Notes:Finance
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 27, 1991 Orlando
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- FINANCE
- Icahn Empties A Piggy Bank
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- <p> Is the 1980s corporate raider going the way of the 1890s
- robber baron? Exhibit A: last week Carl Icahn, TWA chairman and
- high-stakes player during the Decade of the Deal, sold his 13.3%
- interest in Pittsburgh-based USX. Icahn became a force in the
- company in 1986, when takeover fever was at its height. He waged
- an unsuccessful 1990 proxy war to force the firm out of the
- steel business, but seemed to achieve partial victory in January
- when the company agreed to split its common stock into separate
- steel and energy issues--an agreement that went into effect
- barely a week before Icahn's abrupt withdrawal from USX. The
- take from Icahn's sale was more than $1 billion--impressive
- on paper, yet a measly 25% return on his investment over five
- years. Icahn's continuing problems at TWA apparently cry out for
- a compress of cold cash from his deep--yet clearly not
- bottomless--pockets.
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- </body></article>
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