Word: merger
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...glad for the merger," says Barbara Fitch Cobb '70. "I always felt out in left field being in the Radcliffe dorms. They were overcrowded. Usually, two of us were in what was intended to be a single. Harvard houses seemed to have much more space--the suites were bigger...
Also in his capacity as Dean of Admissions, Jewett presided over the merger of Harvard and Redcliffe Colleges and widened the circle of recruitment at the admission office. The past 30 years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of students from far away states and foreign countries, and from different ethnic and religious groups, socio-economic backgrounds and an ever-increasing range of activities and interests...
After Sporkin's ruling, things seemed to turn sour for Microsoft. In late April the Justice Department's antitrust division sued to prevent the company from consummating the merger with Intuit, a deal that would have been the biggest acquisition in software history. Microsoft was scheduled to fight the suit in court on June 26, but two weeks ago, the company announced that it was dropping the merger, perhaps hoping it would get the government off its back. It may be too late for that. Bingaman says her department has become a kind of "Microsoft complaint center," and her staff...
BILL GATES Microsoft's merger with Intuit hits an antitrust snag
...Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's proposed $2 billion acquisition of Intuit, Inc., maker of the hugely popular personal-finance software Quicken. The merger, should it survive the suit, would be the largest ever in the software industry...