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...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 R&D geniuses from the acquiring company and putting them in the same room with their counterparts from the firm being acquired. Working together may set off the creative sparks that drive new discoveries. Or, they may not. The real but hidden definition of the word "synergy" is firing lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Renaissance for Big Acquisitions | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...What we've done is found a way for people to make highly reliable predictions via a method that they would find preposterous, which is simply to say, 'I'll have what she's having,'" he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Predict What You'll Like? Ask a Stranger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...British, trying to hold together an ethnic patchwork of a colony, knew too well the perils of Burma's tribal politics. They resorted to divide-and-conquer schemes, much as the current military regime has done. Intense negotiations by the junta led to many ethnic insurgencies laying down their guns in the 1980s and '90s - and opened up a vast territory for resource exploitation. But as the inequities between the Burmese majority and the tribal groups - the Arakanese, the Shan, the Kachin, the Karen, the Mon, the Wa and the Chin, to name a few - yawns ever wider, the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...past few years, Carl Anglesea gave about $400 each year to charity. But he lost his job as a software developer in August, and since then Anglesea, 54, of Chuluota, Fla., hasn't given a dime. What he has done, though, is triple his hours as a volunteer AARP tax counselor helping people fill out tax forms. "I'd like to give cash, but I can't," he says. "So I'm committing to more hours as a substitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nonprofit Squeeze: Donations Down, Volunteers Up | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...there any movies or roles you regret having done? Alexis Bondoc NEW YORK CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Clive Owen | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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