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...both strategies--to engulf and to disgorge--actually be reconciled in today's business world? Richard D'Aveni, a professor of corporate strategy at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, sees plenty of room for deals along the lines of both the Time Warner merger and the AT&T breakup. (Businessman Donald Perkins and former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills sit on both boards, which voted for conflicting goals.) D'Aveni discerns an intrinsic cycle: poorly conceived mergers turning into spin-offs. The aim is to dominate a market, as Microsoft rules software, Delta dominates the Atlanta airport...
That was on July 27, and Brennan was the first. Three days later, in Clearfield, Pa., Legionnaire Frank Aveni, 60, died in much the same way. And so did three other Pennsylvania veterans. On Sunday, Aug. 1, there were six more, ranging in age from 39 to 82, scattered in towns all around the state. All of them had attended the Legion convention that was held in Philadelphia from July 21 to 24, and all had the same signs and symptoms-headaches, chest pains, high fevers and lung congestion...
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