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- <title>
- June 12, 1989: Business Notes:Corporate Raiders
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 12, 1989 Massacre In Beijing
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 51
- Business Notes
- CORPORATE RAIDERS
- He's Baaaack, With $2 Billion
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- <p> For more than a year, takeover artist and TWA chairman Carl
- Icahn has been missing from the roiling waters of corporate
- raids, beached by huge investments in Texaco and USX. But last
- week Texaco's largest stockholder sent a quiver through the New
- York Stock Exchange when he abruptly unloaded his 17.3% stake,
- or 42 million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600
- million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in
- Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms
- -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers
- -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction freed
- Icahn to prowl once more, setting off speculation that he would
- make another move to take over USX. Icahn owns some 29 million
- shares of the oil-and-steel concern, or 11.4%, worth about $1
- billion. But so far, Icahn refuses to tip his hand.
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