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...interest rates - has revived the M&A boom. The level of merger activity in Europe is still below the absolute peaks hit in 1999 and 2000, at the height of the Internet bubble, but it has been rising sharply in the past 18 months and is set to exceed 2004's volume by more than 25%. During the first years of this decade, while big companies were digesting previous acquisitions or paring debt, private equity groups such as Carlyle or Blackstone were the key acquirers. But in recent months, corporate buyers have been flocking back to the market. While...
...with Harvard University is one of the best PILOT agreements ever negotiated between a community and a non-profit institution,” the WADC wrote in its close-out report, adding that the deal “provides revenue stability for the next fifty years that would likely exceed tax revenues from a private development...
...same track. Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren held a national denim drive, targeting college campuses and challenging young Americans to help affordable-housing groups by donating old jeans. Proceeds went to Habitat for Humanity and were also raised as part of Polo's G.I.V.E. campaign (Get Involved. Volunteer. Exceed.), introduced to inspire community service through volunteerism. Other socially conscious companies like Edun use factories in developing countries in an attempt to spotlight the issue of sustainable employment...
...establish a separate transfer admissions cycle for only eight students, however, would be impractical and unfair to the hundreds of other students who apply for transfer admission each year. If Harvard were to accept a substantial number of Tulane applicants, the acceptance rate of this special pool would far exceed the single-digit figures that perennially govern the ultra-competitive transfer application process, which would be unfair to standard transfer applicants who face far bleaker odds. On the other hand, if Harvard were to apply the same standard to the Tulane pool as to the general pool, then?...
...York. But the scale of money flows is new. Mass migration has produced a giant worldwide economy all its own, which has accelerated so fast during the past few years that the figures have astounded the experts. This year, remittances - the cash that migrants send home - is set to exceed $232 billion, nearly 60% higher than the number just four years ago, according to the World Bank, which tracks the figures. Of that, about $166.9 billion goes to poor countries, nearly double the amount in 2000. In many of those countries, the money from migrants has now overshot exports...