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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...relentless pace of blockbuster deals is raising profound and disturbing questions. While economists generally praise mergers as good for the economy, many critics voice strong doubts. They charge that even the friendliest consolidations can derail careers, disrupt communities and create unmanageable mountains of debt. Perhaps worst of all, evidence is accumulating that many celebrated past mergers have been colossal failures. Warns Sigurd Reinton, a partner in the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "The benefits of mergers and acquisitions are often overrated. You cannot generalize and say all acquisitions are bad, but there is a sufficient number that, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Yes, But Better? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...unseemly spat between Sharon and Peres did little to derail the Prime Minister's recent efforts to breathe life into the Middle East peace process. Peres put Sharon on notice that attacks on government policy will not be tolerated. He also cleared the way for continued talks with Jordan's King Hussein. Despite Peres' repeated denials that he had met secretly with Hussein in Paris last month, the Prime Minister admitted for the first time that "secret negotiations" have been under way between Israel and Jordan. That news came as Jordan extended an olive branch to Syria, thus perhaps paving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Unseemly Spat Peres takes on Sharon | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Tettamanzi would play very well: he has a kind, grandfatherly mien still associated at the Vatican with the much beloved Pope John XXIII. Yet there is said to be friction between the Archbishop of Milan and his predecessor, Martini. The man who might have been Pope could work to derail Tettamanzi's candidacy. There are enough intrigues in Rome just now to fill a Dan Brown novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Who Might Be Pope | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...newly empowered Faculty may take steps to derail the review, now into its third year, in what would be a major defeat for Summers, who played an integral role in the shaping of the report on general education released this month...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEWS ANALYSIS: After Loeb Matinee, Summers Left in Awkward Limbo | 3/16/2005 | See Source »

...Hecklers have tried in their own way to derail the President but with little success. If the Presidential events were any more tightly screened they'd require a blood test to get in. But last week there were three eruptions in Louisville and three more in Memphis. One protestor shook her fist about the war, but the others were doing their yelling in opposition to personal accounts. But their taunts were a little too wonky to punch through. "I'm with you on personal accounts, but what about add-ons," yelled one man from the balcony, referring to private savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road Again, and Again... | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

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