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...main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head of the financial markets division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Jean-Pierre Danthine, a professor at the University of Lausanne, suggests an additional motive for the at-home trend in corporate behavior: domestic mergers have...
...visionaries have spearheaded this radically salacious dramatic opus. The kiddos scripted and composed the music all by themselves. Imagine that! Mom and dad will show up for "a slew of dirty secrets, six self-indulgent students and one seedy night at a Chinese restaurant-rank with sweet-and-sour excess." Get a scorpion bowl's worth of intrigue, debauchery and political incorrectness at the Agassiz, April...
...overpack The First Lady's jet was delayed an hour due to excess cargo weight. And she brought only three press secretaries...
Nevertheless, the Leakeys will forever be synonymous with paleoanthropology and even today show all signs of being alive, well and contributing productively to the field. Richard's wife Meave, a trained zoologist, and their eldest daughter Louise are currently leading teams to northern Kenya, where hominids in excess of 4 million years old are being found. The stage is set for the first family of anthropology to continue well into the next century...
...hard to see why. What can one say when in the face of a city that so unabashedly proclaims its own preeminence? The fact is, even though it's been on good behavior for the past couple of years, New York still breeds a culture of dizzying excess perfectly suited to those who'd like to lose the scarlet H for a few days in a blur of neon lights, rattling subways and the raunchiest late-night public access TV around...