Word: merger
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...these same personalities that could prove difficult in the early days of such a system. Resistance and personality clashes could result in the same sort of messy disputes that went on when Time executives dueled with Warner executives in the months following the Time-Warner merger...
...Previous Merger...
Long-time employees at Brigham and Women's Hospital are already veterans of a previous merger. The hospital was formed in 1980 from what were the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital and two divisions of the Boston Hospital for Women...
Since its merger, Brigham and Women's has emerged as one of the mightiest of the Harvard teaching hospitals. In the fiscal year ended September 1991, the most recent year for which figures are available at the state Office of Public Charities, the hospital reported an annual operating surplus of $33 million...
...prospect of a QVC-HSN merger appeals to many suppliers. Greg Renker, president of Guthy-Renker Corp., which sells some 20 products through home- shopping channels, says the deal "will double our window of opportunity." Before, Renker could sell items ranging from vitamins to sunglasses through either QVC or HSN, but not both. However, Kurt Barnard, publisher of Barnard's Retail Marketing Report, says, "This merger will reduce competition. Instead of two channels, there will be only one, and suppliers will no longer be able to play one channel against the other to negotiate a better price...