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...On Wednesday Mr Justice Simon Picken ruled against Argentina and in favour of the investors....
...The big economic news in the US last week was the progress of a tax bill towards passing in Congress....
...he said, alluding to the Monica Lewinsky scandal of the Bill Clinton era. The industry can do better....
...T Boone Pickens, the Oklahoma-born oil legend, is more succinct. “Earthquakes my ass,” he told the FT....
...A bill creating new credits for gas vehicles and infrastructure, paid for by a tax on the fuel, was killed off in the Senate in 2012....
...But residents such as Ms Turner-Handy and neighbour Bill Kohn, 69, have long taken responsibility for boarding up and cutting the grass of homes abandoned by neighbours who fell behind on payments, lost...
...“Shareholders should be tickled to death when he shows up,” says T Boone Pickens, another veteran corporate raider and a friend of Mr Icahn....
...Boone Pickens and Daniel Yergin back in 2005....
...Boone Pickens before founding Relational Investors in 1996, which has $6bn under management and stakes in Hewlett-Packard and PepsiCo Barry Rosenstein: Break-up artist Founded Jana Partners in 2001....
...Bill Winters believes it will. “The-greed-is-good movement of the 1980s and 1990s carries on today,” he says....
...But after years of thrift, even he has mostly held on to the money, using it for necessities such as medical bills....
...In a blaze of publicity, he has launched a plan to cut the country’s fuel bill....
...Keen to reduce his agrochemical bill, he thought guinea pigs might provide an effective alternative to herbicides....
...Regardless of wind power, Otter Tail will always have its boring utility business, which boasts Bill Gates as its second-largest shareholder, and a 3 per cent dividend....
...Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil investor, warned oil prices would reach $300 a barrel in 10 years if the US failed to re-duce its dependence on imports....
...For example, Boone Pickens, the veteran Texas-based investor, is planning a $2bn move into wind energy....
...Boone Pickens ($200.8m); Robert Day ($200m); and Eli and Edythe Broad ($176m)....
...(Pickens is 117th on Forbes’ richest Americans list, with a $3bn fortune.) That is how Texas built its oil industry....
...A pessimist’s version of events would include a more serious and widespread downturn, as developing countries buckle under the burden of subsidising their citizens’ swelling fuel and food bills....
...Boone Pickens ($171.5m) and Lorry Lokey ($163m). Michael Bloomberg, New York City’s mayor, gave away $165m, earning him the number nine spot....
...As a sign of how profitable activism in Russia has been, Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital Management tied for 25th place with $130m, in spite of being barred from the country this year amid his efforts...
...Boone Pickens’ age....
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