http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/T_Boone_PickensFind stories, videos, and photos about T. Boone Pickens from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:04:45 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/T_Boone_Pickens14433Find stories, videos, and photos about T. Boone Pickens from CNN.com.http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/14/news/economy/pickens_natural_gas.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/07/14/news/economy/pickens_natural_gas.fortune/index.htmTexas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens may have postponed his plans to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas, but he's come closer to accomplishing another goal: Pickens visited the nation's capitol last week to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) introduce a bipartisan bill designed to bring natural gas vehicles to the mainstream American market.Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:55:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/pickens.wind.farm/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/pickens.wind.farm/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving plans to build the world's largest wind farm.Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:15:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/news/economy/whitman_economic_summit.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/06/15/news/economy/whitman_economic_summit.fortune/index.htmWhen politicians and businesspeople get together to discuss energy policy, it's usually the politicians who talk like dreamers and the private-sector folks trying to inject a little cold, hard realism into the conversation.Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:54:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/22/pickens.wind.bank/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/22/pickens.wind.bank/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire and clean-energy proponent T. Boone Pickens said that the U.S. should establish a federally funded loan program, or bank, to finance large-scale wind developments.Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:24:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/06/news/economy/smart_grid/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/06/news/economy/smart_grid/index.htmFor years we've been hearing about the nation's crumbling and outdated electricity grid.Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:59:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/30/news/companies/western_refining.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/30/news/companies/western_refining.fortune/index.htmIt's not often you hear a corporate executive advocate a tax on the product he sells, particularly not in the oil business, where opposition to gasoline taxes is fervent. But Paul Foster, the chairman and CEO of El Paso-based Western Refining, is (dare we use the word after the presidential campaign?) a maverick.Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:34:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/news/economy/pickens/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/news/economy/pickens/index.htmBillionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is delaying his massive Texas wind project, citing a drop in natural gas prices and the tightening credit market.Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:50:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/pickens.larry.king/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/07/pickens.larry.king/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire T. Boone Pickens says he doesn't know "where bottom is" regarding the U.S. economy, but he believes weaning America off foreign oil will create jobs and improve national security.Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:02:00 ESThttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/10/28/economy/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/10/28/economy/index.htmlIn an effort to cut costs, newspapers across the country have merged their sports and business sections, but even the most miserly publisher couldn't have predicted how the worlds of college sports and business would collide in Tuesday's edition of the Tulsa (Okla.) World.Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:39:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/25/boone.pickens.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/25/boone.pickens.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire hedge fund manager T. Boone Pickens spoke about the beleaguered U.S. economy, a prospective bailout and natural gas Thursday, a day after reports that his energy-related hedge funds lost $1 billion this year.Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:48:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/21/begala.ticket/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/21/begala.ticket/index.html#cnnSTCTextWhile the political world held its breath awaiting the two presumptive presidential candidates' vice presidential picks, I slipped out of Washington and paid a visit to the real world.Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:21:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/25/technology/ipo_drought.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/25/technology/ipo_drought.fortune/index.htmIt's an annual ritual on Wall Street - the fourth quarter IPO season, when a flurry of companies make their debut on the public markets before New Year's. But given today's volatile market, and the dismal performance this month of what seemed sure to be a no-brainer IPO in Rackspace, you have to wonder what kind of year-end bump we might get.Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:22:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/news/economy/oil_drilling.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/08/13/news/economy/oil_drilling.fortune/index.htm"I think it's important for the American people to understand we're not going to drill our way out of this problem. It's also important to recognize if you start drilling now you won't see a drop of oil for ten years, which means it's not going to have a significant impact on short-term prices." - U.S. Senator Barack Obama, Aug. 8, 2008Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:23:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/news/economy/pickens_wind/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/news/economy/pickens_wind/index.htmHigh-profile personalities have been telling the nation to ditch that dirty fossil fuel and turn to renewable energy.Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:15:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/28/wind.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/28/wind.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTextFrom Dallas, Texas to Dabancheng, China, energy companies are staking fortunes on harnessing wind power.Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:30:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/22/pickens.profile/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/22/pickens.profile/index.html#cnnSTCTextWhen Texas oilman, investor and sometime political player T. Boone Pickens talks, people listen.Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:48:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/news/economy/senate_energy_security/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/news/economy/senate_energy_security/index.htmTexas oilman T. Boone Pickens told Congress Tuesday that the government must act quickly to curb the nation's dependence on foreign oil.Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:44:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/21/pickens.interview/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/21/pickens.interview/index.html#cnnSTCTextEarlier this month, legendary entrepreneur and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens unveiled a new energy plan he says will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil by more than one-third and help shift American energy production toward renewable natural resources.Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is putting his clout behind renewable energy sources like wind power.Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:53:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/economy/oil_barron/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/economy/oil_barron/index.htmTexas oil man T. Boone Pickens Tuesday unveiled a new energy plan he says will decrease the United States' dependency on foreign oil by more than one-third and help shift American energy production toward renewable natural resources like wind power.Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:37:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/06/25/news/economy/eia_outlook/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/06/25/news/economy/eia_outlook/index.htmWorld energy use is expected to surge 50% from 2005 to 2030, largely due to an expanding population and rapid economic growth, according to a government report Wednesday.Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/19/pickens.qa/index.html#cnnSTCTextBillionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens is sinking billions of dollars into a new wind farm in Texas. It is likely to become the biggest in the world, producing enough power for the equivalent of 1.3 million homes. CNN's Ali Velshi asked the oil legend why he thinks wind could be the answer to this country's energy problems:Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:42:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/05/20/markets/oil_stead/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/05/20/markets/oil_stead/index.htmOil prices surged to a new record above $129 a barrel Tuesday amid continuing concern about global supply.Tue, 20 May 2008 20:32:00 EDThttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/frank_deford/10/24/college.parity/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/frank_deford/10/24/college.parity/index.htmlOkay, all of the ballots are in for this week's influential National Public Radio college football poll ... well, actually, I'm the only one with a ballot in the NPR poll; everybody else at NPR has more important things to attend to ... and here's the news: the voters have decided to call off the poll for 2007. Instead, the official NPR poll has decided that any team that wants to can declare itself the national college football champion this year.Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:28:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/news/companies/florida_gators.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/news/companies/florida_gators.fortune/index.htmThings are heating up at the Swamp. That's what they call their stadium down here in Gainesville, Fla. And the University of Florida Gators football team - defending national champs - hasn't lost a game on its home turf in more than two years.Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:36:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/06/12/8379211/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/06/12/8379211/index.htmA compendium of revealing statsThu, 08 Jun 2006 12:58:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/tyrrell.oilyrepublicans/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/tyrrell.oilyrepublicans/index.htmlDo my eyes deceive me? Am I reading that President George W. Bush has joined with the Republican leadership to call for investigation of the oil companies in light of soaring oil and gas prices? Oil hit $75 a barrel recently and apparently transformed the Republicans into Democrats, Democrats of the Charles Schumer and Jean-Francois Kerry variety.Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:24:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/12/01/8365369/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/12/01/8365369/index.htm(FORTUNE Small Business) - Boone Pickens slips off his bright-orange necktie (he's a proud son of Oklahoma State; the football stadium in Stillwater bears his name), pops open a can of Dr Pepper, e...Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:38:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/27/pump.pain/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/27/pump.pain/index.htmlThe summer driving season hasn't kicked in yet and demand is already pushing prices at the pump toward new highs, with the average gas price at $2.21 a gallon, up 8 cents from two weeks ago. On top of that, crude oil hit a new record. While there might be differences in opinion on how high prices will go, experts agree that consumers shouldn't expect relief anytime soon.Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:20:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/27/news/economy/gas_prices/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/27/news/economy/gas_prices/index.htmGasoline prices, reversing a two-month slide, are again approaching records and at least one expert thinks they could hit $3 a gallon soon in the United States.Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:38:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/06/24/325187/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/06/24/325187/index.htmWater, like air and your mother, is one of those things everybody takes for granted--until the well runs dry. That's what happened this year when a severe drought hit the Eastern seaboard and much ...Mon, 24 Jun 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/05/27/323677/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/05/27/323677/index.htmNobody tells business stories better than Joe Nocera. So while it's been a big plus for me--and a great benefit for FORTUNE--to have Joe lay down his pen and serve as an executive editor for the pa...Mon, 27 May 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214703/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/22/214703/index.htmThe news that T. Boone Pickens will soon be leaving Mesa--the oil and gas company he founded some 40 years ago and launching pad for the hostile takeover attempts that made him famous--surely ranks...Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/04/17/202109/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/04/17/202109/index.htmHey, Republicans! Still smarting from Dick Cheney's withdrawal from the 1996 presidential race? Get over it. A bevy of top business brass has already cast ballots elsewhere. Mon, 17 Apr 1995 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75600/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/10/21/75600/index.htmThere at the end, in June 1986, even after he'd been arraigned on insider- trading charges and anybody but a moron could have seen it was all over, Dennis Levine was still telling one of his co-con...Mon, 21 Oct 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72390/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72390/index.htmA funny thing happened these past few years to the American corporation as it was well on its way to the global hegemony once divined for it by the French pundit Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: It g...Mon, 28 Aug 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71969/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/05/08/71969/index.htmIs T. Boone Pickens trying to greenmail the richest company in the world? Notably inactive in the U.S. lately, the corporate raider chose an unlikely overseas target when he secretly bought 20% of ...Mon, 08 May 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71894/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71894/index.htmI HAVE SOME VERY interesting questions for them this year, you can be sure,'' says gadfly Evelyn Y. Davis about one FORTUNE 500 company whose annual stockholder meeting she plans to attend. Even if...Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70867/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70867/index.htmCOMPETITION/ COVER STORY 42 TREMORS FROM THE COMPUTER QUAKE At age 40 the computer industry is undergoing a mid- life crisis brought on by two developments: the accelerating power of desktop microc...Mon, 01 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70834/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70834/index.htmIn his autobiography, Boone, corporate raider T. Boone Pickens, 60, recalls that even when his aunt Ethel was his teacher in the fifth grade, he did not get an A. Judging from his imbroglio with th...Mon, 01 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70799/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70799/index.htmGeorge Roche, 47, is not a native of Baltimore, but he has begun to feel at home after living there for 20 years. He sails Chesapeake Bay and cheers on the Orioles. As portfolio manager of T. Rowe ...Mon, 18 Jul 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70562/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/05/23/70562/index.htmRaise the dividend and batten down the boardroom! Alan ''Ace'' Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns; Sam Heyman, CEO of GAF Corp.; Carl Icahn; and T. Boone Pickens are all swimming together. But wait a m...Mon, 23 May 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/05/01/84507/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/05/01/84507/index.htmAdvisers often urge people to put 5% to 10% of their portfolios into gold or gold-mining stocks as a hedge against inflation. While this is sound advice, in the short run gold and mining shares are...Sun, 01 May 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/09/69808/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/09/69808/index.htmANXIETY WAS RIFE. The Soviet Union had just invaded Afghanistan, the Ayatollah Khomeini was consolidating control in Iran, and U.S. inflation was in double digits. It was January 1980 and the price...Mon, 09 Nov 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/02/69778/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/11/02/69778/index.htmAFTER YEARS of oversupply, industrial raw materials have perked up in price with the acceleration of factory production in the U.S. Many farm commodities have also become costlier. All of which sug...Mon, 02 Nov 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/09/14/69522/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/09/14/69522/index.htmWhen raider T. Boone Pickens buys, Wall Street follows. In late July Boeing disclosed that Pickens's Mesa Limited Partnership had acquired a small stake in the company and was seeking government pe...Mon, 14 Sep 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69390/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69390/index.htmLEE IACOCCA, 62, chairman and chief executive of Chrysler, on his company's selling as new those cars damaged during testing: ''The decision went beyond dumb and reached all the way out to stupid.'...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/11/69029/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/05/11/69029/index.htmA federal judge dismissed a suit filed by the FMC Corp. charging that Ivan Boesky and three other traders had cost the Chicago-based company more than $225 million because of insider trading. The j...Mon, 11 May 1987 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/02/68736/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/03/02/68736/index.htmJerks, investment bankers and raiders call them, before descending to profanity. Clowns. They're talking about the managers of some of America's biggest corporations, and the talk more often than n...Mon, 02 Mar 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/03/01/83777/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1987/03/01/83777/index.htmIf you've been hankering to get in on the action in Hollywood, there are plenty of dealmakers ready to rake in your antes. In the past nine months Ron Howard, Dick Clark, Dino De Laurentiis and Aar...Sun, 01 Mar 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68711/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68711/index.htmLOOKING AHEAD/ Cover Story Executive Guilt: Who' s Taking Care of the Children? 30 Worries about kids raised by nannies or day care centers are being aired from corporate boardrooms to Congress. by...Mon, 16 Feb 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68672/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/02/16/68672/index.htmFEARED by much of corporate America, T. Boone Pickens, 58, hates to be called a ''raider.'' Yet because of Pickens (left, at the 2B, his Texas ranch), Big Oil will never again be quite the same, an...Mon, 16 Feb 1987 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68066/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68066/index.htmTrying to gird against risk without forgoing big gains is like trying to do the impossible. Stanford Rothschild, 60, president of Baltimore's Rothschild Co., which manages $900 million for corporat...Mon, 29 Sep 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68122/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68122/index.htmT. BOONE PICKENS, 58, on how his newly founded lobbying group, United Shareholders Association, will operate: ''We will call attention to specific examples of management entrenchment and shareholde...Mon, 29 Sep 1986 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67384/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/04/14/67384/index.htmCHIEF EXECUTIVES on lobbying missions are almost as common as tourists on Capitol Hill. Effective ones are a lot rarer. Here is a list of the best of the bunch, based on interviews with dozens of l...Mon, 14 Apr 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/03/67067/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/02/03/67067/index.htmHOSTILE TAKEOVERS were as hot a topic in Washington as on Wall Street last year. But for all the talk, no laws were passed and no new rules went into effect. This year the Federal Reserve Board, th...Mon, 03 Feb 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66974/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/06/66974/index.htmEven if a proposed new rule by the Federal Reserve were already in effect, the Fed wouldn't be able to lay a glove on General Electric's purchase of RCA for $6.28 billion in cash. But after New Yea...Mon, 06 Jan 1986 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/11/66596/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/11/11/66596/index.htmRUN DOWN THE LIST of the big-time corporate raiders and you might conclude that they're sated or preoccupied. Carl Icahn has just stepped into the pilot's seat at TWA after winning a four-month dog...Mon, 11 Nov 1985 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66481/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66481/index.htmHaving run out of takeover targets, T. Boone Pickens showed he could make dramatic moves without them. This time Pickens turned his sights on his own Mesa Petroleum and offered to transform the com...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66450/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66450/index.htmBLEND THE ATTRIBUTES of a corporation and a limited partnership and what do you come up with? A master limited partnership (MLP), one of the hottest hybrids blossoming in the oil patch. While T. Bo...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66490/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66490/index.htmSPECIAL REPORT Time to Quit 18 South Africa? A U.S. pullout would wound, not kill, the economy, leaving bargains for local companies. by John Nielsen An interview with 21 Harry Oppenheimer Don't Lo...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66479/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/09/30/66479/index.htmWhile the takeover game hasn't abated, the defense seems to be scoring lately as often as the attacker. First Revlon announced a plan to buy up to 26% of its stock in exchange for notes and preferr...Mon, 30 Sep 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66238/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66238/index.htmTHOUGH HARDLY in the Boone Pickens league, Natalie I. Koether, 45, head of Shamrock Associates of Far Hills, New Jersey, is fast gaining a reputation as a greenmailer. Like the wily Texan, she and ...Mon, 05 Aug 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66279/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/08/05/66279/index.htmEven when T. Boone Pickens loses, he seems to win. After a Delaware court ruled Unocal could exclude him from a buyback offer to shareholders, waylaying Pickens's last ambush, the word on Wall Stre...Mon, 05 Aug 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65872/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/05/27/65872/index.htmHOSTILE TAKEOVERS, always a subject of high contention, have become one of the hottest issues in Washington, on Wall Street, and in boardrooms across the U.S. Corporate chieftains, lawyers, investm...Mon, 27 May 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/01/07/65494/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/01/07/65494/index.htmThe calm that had descended on the merger-prone oil industry was deceptive: T. Boone Pickens Jr., the chairman of Mesa Petroleum who had made the first pass at Gulf Oil, seemed to be preparing anot...Mon, 07 Jan 1985 05:01:00 EST