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T. Boone Pickens To the Rescue
Texas oilman and rancher T. Boone Pickens grabbed a lot of sympathetic headlines after Hurricane Katrina by airlifting 800 abandoned dogs and cats out of the...
10 Questions for T. Boone Pickens
His name sounds as if it belonged to a blues singer, and this Texas oilman has made plenty of executives cry. The hostile-takeover artist, 76, was targeting CEOs...
High Times for T. Boone Pickens
To many, he is a real-life J.R. Ewing, the ruthless but fascinating wheeler- dealer whom viewers of Dallas love to hate--and sometimes secretly admire. To , his...
T. Boone's Tokyo Campaign
An American tycoon tries to make an investment in Japan but runs into an intricate web of cozy corporate ties that shuts out foreigners. At the stockholders'...
Corporate Fear and Trembling
An extraordinary specter is haunting the leaders of some of America's largest corporations. The specter is a Texan--a very rich and wily one. His name is T. (for...
A Shark Loses Some of His Teeth
To many business leaders, Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens was beginning to look like an unstoppable threat. Moving with growing audacity, Pickens and his...
Why Romney Is Polishing Energy’s Apple
On Tuesday night in Dallas, Mitt Romney made one thing clear: He was not “just polishing the apple for T. Boone Pickens here,” he said, when he began his policy...
Who Is Darla Moore? Meet one of Augusta’s First Female Members
South Carolina financier Darla Moore had been considered for the spot as first female member of Augusta National Golf Club for as many as five years.
Why Bain Matters Cont.
Joe Nocera has an important column in the Times today about the cult of “shareholder value” and its impact on American capitalism over the past 30 years...
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