Word: berkeley
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Simmons did graduate work at Harvard, Howard University and the University of California at Berkeley, and he is currently an associate professor of architecture at Berkeley. Berkeley...
Seidman, who was the first woman president of The Crimson, is currently a graduate student in sociology at Berkeley. If elected she would be the youngest overseer ever to serve on the board
...takeover entrepreneurs." He adds sharply, "They do not create jobs. They do not add to the national wealth. They merely rearrange ownership interests and shift risk from shareholders to creditors." Concurs Peter Jones, retired senior vice president of Levi Strauss and now an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley: "While we in America devote a major part of our material and human resources to promoting and fighting mergers and hostile takeovers, we are becoming less and less competitive with Japan and all the new Japans...
...large beneficial to the U.S. economy, however, the current merger frenzy seems to have gone too far. Takeover strategy is taking up vast amounts of management's energy and attention. Instead of running their businesses, some executives are spending their time worrying about financial plays. Says Berkeley's Jones: "As considerable as is the drain of money and other resources into mergers and acquisitions, I regard the drain on management time and talent as perhaps even more important...
...Bishop Berkeley's 18th century dictum "Westward the course of empire takes its way" was borne out again last week by a Commerce Department analysis of urban demographic trends. The department forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with...