Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.
The Wall Street Journal reports that private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is selling approximately half of its 40% stake in Pilot Travel Centers.
Mr. Anastasia says his client read about the property in The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties column and visited the home a day before it hit the market.
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At the Journal she talked up private investment as the key to a meaningful reduction in misery.
On the other hand, I also gather that the Bancroft family, which is the single largest private shareholder in the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones company, is reluctant to see its crown jewel possession, the Wall Street Journal, fall into the hands of, well, the same guy who owns the Fox News Channel.
One top Wall Street executive told me a few years ago how, during Spitzer's crusade against crooked securities research, a blow-by-blow account of a supposedly private meeting appeared in The Wall Street Journal the next day--ending when the then attorney general left the room.
Some people seem to think that they are as private as letters, phone calls, or journal entries.
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The Wall Street Journal reported last week that a private equity firm Edwards worked for and invests in has been foreclosing on the homes of Hurricane Katrina victims.
Craig Wills, a computer-science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, published research in 2011 showing that 56% of more than 100 websites leaked pieces of private information in ways similar to those found in the Journal's study.
Even though Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to issue Letters of Marque, they were forbidden in the 1856 Paris Declaration, which as been accepted as customary international law. (Theodore Richard produced an excellent journal paper on this topic analyzing the use of private security providers for piracy).
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The Wall Street Journal reported that an assortment of real estate companies and private-equity investors were considering making bids.
In 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported agreement among Exxon-Mobil and "many private analysts and government ... forecasters" that U.S. gasoline demand peaked in 2007 and is headed down.
Wall Street Journal, the Mississippi plant in question is owned by a private company, the Steel Development Co.
Finally, the SEC is starting to look at the shrouded world of private equity, according to stories over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday that the firm is trying to beef up its private bank, which lends to wealthy clients and corporations.
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The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Virtu also has the advantage of having a private equity backer willing to inject more cash if the takeover is successful.
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Dell shares have continued to rally Tuesday after Bloomberg and then the Wall Street Journal reported that the company has been in talks with TPG, Silver Lake and other private equity investors about the potential for what would be an enormous leveraged buyout of the PC and enterprise computing company.
Ominously, two recent stories in the Wall Street Journal have suggested that top executives at Lehman and AIG had issued public reassurances while in possession of private information to the contrary.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Dell has recently held talks with buyout firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG about going private.
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