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Oilman Pickens rides again

Next to racquetball, playing poker and flying in his Learjet, there are few pastimes that Texas Oilman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 55, enjoys more than swooping down on vulnerable companies and giving their managers the willies. During the past 16 months, Pickens has earned $105.7 million for his company, Mesa Petroleum, by buying up large amounts of undervalued stocks and selling them at a handsome profit, sometimes back to the company whose stock he bought. Early this year, for example, he bought a large stake in Superior Oil, then in...

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