Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial straitjacket for the erstwhile wizard than the trophy he had envisioned. In recent years, as he struggled to keep the now bankrupt carrier aloft, Icahn groped for a graceful way to bail out. Despite near frantic efforts, he was unable to find a willing buyer or merger partner, until...
...Time-Warner merger of 1989 was supposed to produce corporate "synergy": the whole was supposed to be more than the sum of the parts. The Cop Killer controversy is an example of negative synergy. People get mad at Cop Killer and start boycotting the movie Batman Returns. A reviewer praises Cop Killer ("Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular," etc.), and TIME is accused of corruption instead of mere foolishness. Senior Time Warner executives find themselves under attack for -- and defending -- products of their company they neither honestly care for nor really understand...
Radcliffe originally provided women undergraduates with housing, supervision and access to a Harvard education. But when the two colleges conducted their "non-merger merger" in 1973, Radcliffe relinquished its responsibility for daily undergraduate life...
What this book brings to the already crowded domain of Hawking lore is a rather successful merger of biography and physics. As it traces the course of Hawking's life, it pauses occasionally to prepare the reader for the mind- boggling complexities of relativity theory and the even more bizarre notions of quantum physics -- twin pillars on which Hawking has constructed his theories -- which he is currently attempting to unite in an all- encompassing theory. The authors characterize their early review of Newton's classical theory of gravitation, for example, as "a gentle workout in the foothills before we head...
...back in the early seventies, Harvard and Radcliffe started down the road to their eventual merger, forever dooming Harvard men to Quad housing...