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...longer-term picture is cloudier. Synergy is the business world's most over-hyped concept, and the Internet is a market where just about everyone is betting but almost no one is yet taking home winnings. A similar deal two years ago, in which Bell Atlantic proposed to absorb the cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was called off before it could go forward. While MCI has a strong customer base among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence...
...least several hours -- one lasted more than a day. Because people and baboons are so closely related genetically, the human markings on the implanted pig hearts protected the transplants from swift rejection by the baboons. Even so, the Duke team had to use drugs to curb the longer-term rejection response...
...came to public money. In 1979 Citron helped change a state law to allow counties to - borrow vast amounts through arrangements called reverse repurchase agreements. Such deals permit treasurers to take out what amount to short-term loans from firms like Merrill Lynch and invest the proceeds in longer-term bonds that pay more interest. In pursuit of this strategy, Citron added a boggling $12.5 billion of borrowed bonds to the $7.7 billion of public funds that he supervised...
...study has concluded that the effect of DARE's core curriculum -- conducted by specially trained local police officers in 17 weekly, 45-to-60-min. sessions for fifth- and sixth-grade students -- is statistically insignificant in preventing drug use among that group. Resources might be better spent on longer-term, more interactive programs. The study was conducted by the Research Triangle Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and commissioned by the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice...
...Policies that will not stand us in good stead have been included due to short-term considerations or political expediency," the memo read. "The neglect of longer-term, indirect, effects of policies is a serious defect of the package of changes you have put forward...