Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think there'll ever be a complete merger," Kay said. "I'm not sure that it really makes sense to have a 5000 bed hospital...
...HOSPITAL MERGERS. These are among the most important of the reforms the medical profession is undertaking. Hospitals have long been accused of building expensive overcapacity (one-third of all hospital beds are unoccupied on an average day) and duplicating costly equipment that they could share. In Iowa, however, so many hospitals are merging that Des Moines may soon be the only city with more than one -- and there two of the remaining three big ones, Iowa Methodist Medical Center and Iowa Lutheran Hospital, are completing a merger. Among other things, they will concentrate on types of care in which they...
...COMPETITORS' WEAKNESSES: Lotus ((maker of financial accounting software)) lost ground because it was very late in catching the two biggest technology waves: the Macintosh . . . and Windows. Borland International ((producer of database programs)) is too distracted with its bad merger with Ashton-Tate. Philippe Kahn ((Borland CEO)) is good at playing the saxophone and sailing, but he's not good at making money. WordPerfect ((developer of word-processing software)) is truly a one-product company . . . Our most successful software is for the ((Apple Computer)) Macintosh. We have a much higher market share on the Mac than anywhere else. How does Apple...
...views are not always in line with the Republican Party platform, but rather a merger of life experience and his natural instinct to compromise...
...Clinton Administration were briefed on the Time Warner- U S West deal before it was announced, and most observers expect the government to ease restrictions against cross-ownership, not tighten them. "If the law were changed tomorrow," says TCI CEO John Malone,"I believe there would be a wholesale merger of the telephone and cable companies." Some think it has already begun. "The train is leaving the station," says Professor Neuman. "And everybody is scurrying to get on board before it departs...