Word: closedness
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A few very large deals have been done recently. Most were first proposed several months ago. They were likely to work because they were what investment bankers call "strategic." Usually that means that the two companies involved are in the same business. They see "synergies" which involve things like taking...
The results confirmed the value of annual screening in detecting cancer. After seven years, 2,820 cases of cancer were caught in the group that had been instructed to have annual checkups, vs. 2,322 in the group that was left on its own - a difference of 22%. The reasonable...
Now 26, Ziada organized Cairo's first human-rights film festival in November. The censorship board did not approve the films, so Ziada doorstopped its chairman at the elevator and rode up with him to plead her case. When the theater was suspiciously closed at the last minute, she rented...
The birth of high-definition, digital filmmaking changed all that. Cameron and an associate, Vince Pace, developed the 3-D-capable Fusion camera system, which is cheaper, smaller--13 lb. each--and way more versatile than the old film rigs. "Every movie I made, up until Tintin, I always kept...
At the Greater Twin Cities United Way in St. Paul, Minn., Sue Moyer manages 44,000 volunteers a year with the help of one full-time and one part-time employee. Losing either employee would be devastating, she says. So far, there is no indication of cuts to come at...