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- <text id=91TT1843>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: Business Notes:Finance
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- FINANCE
- The Fall Of Farley
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- <p> A go-go era fairy tale is heading for a no-no era denouement.
- In 1976 ex-encyclopedia salesman William Farley bought a
- California citrus processor with just $25,000 of his own money.
- Within years, he ruled over a multibillion-dollar empire. Then
- came Farley's folly: the 1989 leveraged buyout of sheet-and-towel
- giant West Point-Pepperell, for $1.6 billion. Burdened by debt,
- he endured the junk-bond collapse, the recession and the gulf war.
- But last week Farley accepted a "prepackaged" bankruptcy plan that
- will slash his share of West Point-Pepperell from 95% to 5%, the
- biggest blow yet to Farley's fraying kingdom.
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