Word: corps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week that the BankAmerica-NationsBank deal was announced, Banc One chairman John B. McCoy (who once mused that in the future the industry would have just five or six major banks) announced plans to merge his $116 billion bank with the much merged $115 billion First Chicago NBD Corp. All this came just a week after insurance and brokerage giant Travelers Group announced plans to tie the knot with Citicorp, the second largest bank in the U.S.--a $76 billion marriage, not just of services but of two industry titans: Sanford Weill, who emerged from a messenger...
...need to stick with government-issued numbers. Government money will still exist, but so will dozens of other currencies, each tailored to a specific need and endlessly convertible and exchangeable. The best money, in short, will be the smartest money. Says Howard Greenspan, president of Toronto-based Heraclitus Corp., a management consulting firm: "In the electronic city, the final step in the evolution of money is being taken. Money is being demonetized. Money is being eliminated...
...year, deals worth $236 billion have been announced, putting us on track for a seventh consecutive yearly record. Only a day after the Citigroup blockbuster, two more pairs of financial-services companies agreed to marry. Credit-card and home-equity lender Household International will pay $7.7 billion for Beneficial Corp., which is in the same businesses; and insurer Conseco Inc. agreed to pay $6.4 billion for subprime, mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial. Meanwhile, the stock price soared for just about every mutual-fund company, bank or brokerage considered likely to find a partner...
...judge--which is why some relatively minor cases are allowed to proceed (including one involving a Miller Brewing Co. employee who accused a colleague of sexual harassment after he described a randy Seinfeld episode), and why some egregious cases are eventually dismissed (including one involving a Rockwell International Corp. parts inspector who was allegedly groped, fondled and threatened repeatedly by a co-worker...
...serving in World War II, he completed his studies at the college, and later graduated as a Baker Scholar from the Business School. He is currently the owner and president of BEREXCO INC., a oil and gas exploration company based in Kansas. He also serves as president of Beren Corp. and is owner of Central Crude Corp...