Word: doings
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In any case, the plans cannot be judged purely on economic grounds. They embed highly controversial political and social judgments. Just how much government do the people want, and what do they think it should do? Are the pending surpluses a heaven-sent opportunity to spend more on high priorities...
Then began what both sides describe as more of a "dating process" than a financial negotiation. Blending two corporate cultures can be a problem in big mergers, but it is far more crucial in small companies. If their employees do not get along with one another and leave for a...
"There are almost no short-term cost savings [in a merger] if you do it right," says Fred Zimmerman. He has been on 16 company boards as a small businessman turned professor (of engineering and international management) at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He counsels would-be acquirers...
Tom Volz, president of the Columbia, S.C., visitors' bureau, has advanced prostate cancer; he's been given two to three years to live. A few months ago, he received the funding for his viatical settlement, which handed him $58,500, or roughly 40% of his $150,000 policy. "There are...
Personally, I just don't know enough to be worried about biotech, although I figure that if anything is going to do in my visiting in-laws this Thanksgiving, it's going to be Salmonella from an undercooked bird or their taxi ride out to LaGuardia.