Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is hardly the smooth navigating you've been led to expect on the so- called information superhighway. Neither Stargazer's shortcomings, however, nor the collapse of Bell Atlantic's proposed merger with Tele-Communications Inc. in March seems to have dampened the enthusiasm of the company -- or the rest of the telecommunications industry -- for the superhighway venture. Stargazer, which expects to serve up to 1,000 customers by early next year, is just one of four Bell Atlantic pilot projects, and it joins several dozen similar tests being patched together across...
...collapse of Soviet patronage in South Yemen spurred a merger in May 1990. But the leader of the North, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the leader of the South, Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh, bickered incessantly. They refused to completely merge their armies or their economies, and never built up any trust. "The power plays got to a point of no return," says Judith Kipper, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution...
Robert H. Scott announced his retirement as vice president for finance in September. But the search for a successor has dragged on so long that Scott actually started work in a new position with Partners Health Care Inc.-- the company formed by merger of Massachusetts General Hospital and the Brigham & Women's Hospital--before Harvard had even named a temporary replacement, Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper...
...Wayne Huizenga, Blockbuster chairman and Viacom ally in the Paramount takeover war. Now backpedaling from merger with Viacom. Has announced plans for a Florida sports-and-entertainment complex to rival Disney World; now Disney may launch a friendly takeover bid for Blockbuster. Wants to rechristen Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium, which he owns 50% of, Blockbuster Stadium. The Robbie family is resisting...
Scott recently began work as vice president of Partners Health Care Systems, Inc., the company created by the merger of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital...