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...Decades later, at the 1996 launch of OxyContin, his nephew Richard promised that Purdue would promote it so heavily that it would unleash “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition”....
...(FT) Understanding what it takes to succeed Michael Johnson was dubbed “Superman” after smashing the world records in the 200m and 400m races at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta....
...These days, though, private equity is having a sudden burst of energy. The industry is raising record amounts of cash....
...Mr Nuttall had been groomed for the top at KKR for years, although, like fellow co-COO Joseph Bae he is only in his mid-forties and also joined the group in 1996....
...Within weeks he had signed to Interscope and was working with Dre on his 1999 album The Slim Shady LP, which would stay in the Billboard charts for more than 100 weeks....
...For instance, Figure 58 shows that LP growth for 1996 was revised up from roughly 1% originally to close to 3% eventually. (Citi GPS) —— 9....
...Desmarais is “a man who can attempt any corporate foray he wants, can do it because he has the money, the energy, the imagination and no apparent guilt.”...
...(Financial Times) (FT editorial) Parts of the US government may shut down at midnight on Monday for the first time since 1996 if Congress and the White House can’t find a way out of their latest stand-off...
...WTI is CME’s flagship energy futures contract and the company defends it as the standard by which to measure the global price of oil....
...Audley returned more than 90 per cent in 2010 thanks to a large investment in Western Coal – whose takeover by Walter Energy for $3.3bn was orchestrated by Mr Treger....
...Mr Kinder is a one-time Enron executive who bought its physical pipeline assets in 1996 to form Kinder Morgan. He is not selling any of his 30.6 per cent stake in the company....
...It will also be the largest IPO of a US energy group since Conoco sold $4.4bn worth of shares in 1998....
...The largest IPOs to date in Europe are the privatisations of Italian utility Enel, which raised $17.4bn in 1999, and Deutsche Telekom, which raised $13bn in 1996....
...No shares are being sold by Richard Kinder, the former Enron president who bought its physical pipeline assets in 1996, and formed them into a separate company....
...Four state-controlled Polish companies – energy group PGE, copper miner KGHM, oil company PKN Orlen, and coal trader Weglokoks – own slightly more than 75 per cent of Polkomtel....
...Shares in BP have hit their lowest levels since August 1996, months before the energy giant merged with Amoco and acquired the lion’s share of its US assets, FT Alphaville reports, as legal and financial...
...It has spent half the money on six assets transferred from PPF and is poised to complete the €100m buy-out of J&T, a Slovakia-based energy group....
...The S&P rallied 7.3 per cent in November 1996, its best monthly performance that year, when President Bill Clinton was re-elected....
...Not since the Conservative government’s bodged sale of the train rolling stock companies in 1996 as part of the privatisation of British Rail has a disposal attracted so much attention....
...The energy sector did well this week, as oil prices hit a two-month high before sliding a touch on Friday....
...“The one thing I do is always go to thegym, to keep fit and keep my energy. I don’t have massages or facials or anything like that. I cut my hair once a year. I’m pretty low maintenance.”...
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