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<text id=91TT1149>
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May 27, 1991: Business Notes:Finance
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
May 27, 1991 Orlando
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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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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