Word: bringing
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Thomas M. Reardon, Harvard's vice president for alumni affairs and development, says that donors may want a more personal feel to their gift than a library donation can bring...
...council's budget is the fastest way to provide them with that money. With more money the Black Students Association wouldn’t be forced to scramble to fund their upcoming hip-hop Conference or the South Asian Association could put on more events like Ghungroo which bring together the entire campus...
...bankers jetting in from Wall Street. In fact, two banks based in New York City, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, overtook their European rivals for the first time in 1998 and became the top two advisers for takeovers in Europe in terms of the value of deals they helped bring about, according to Securities Data/Thomson Financial. "I believe there's going to be a lot more hostile activity," predicts Wilder Fulford, a managing director for mergers and acquisitions at U.S. investment bank Salomon Smith Barney in London. "You have a fair number of corporate cowboys out there in the European...
Morgan's philosophical legacy is more troublesome. He regarded competition as wasteful and chaotic, which in his day it often was. To bring stability and order to the economy--and to fulfill what he regarded as his moral responsibility to safeguard clients' investments--he organized monster trusts. Notably, he midwifed the 1901 merger that created U.S. Steel, the world's first billion-dollar corporation. Such behemoths have spurred economic growth and technological advance. But can they get so big and powerful that the government is justified in breaking them up? If so, when? And how can that be done without...
...turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...