Word: merger
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Having turned over day-to-day responsibilities of its undergrads to Harvard in the 1973 "non-merger merger," Wilson told the crowd of 600 that Radcliffe now sets its sights on increasing women faculty at the University, improving security for women on campus and understanding gender dynamics in the classroom...
Paramount can use the help. Ghost turned box offices into cash cows, but the studio remains a flophouse, home to such crowd displeasers as The Two Jakes and The Godfather Part III. What about rumors of a Paramount-NBC merger? | Nonsense, says Paramount chief executive Martin Davis -- at least for the near term...
...defeat that Helmut Kohl suffered in the Rhineland-Palatinate last week amounted to a mugging in his backyard. Although the Chancellor was not on the ticket, the polling for the legislature of his home state was seen throughout the country as a referendum on his handling of the merger of the two Germanys. | His Christian Democratic party (CDU) was beaten, 38.7% to 44.8%, by the Social Democrats. Kohl, the state's premier from 1969 to 1976, admitted that the defeat was "personally painful...
...effective in May, marks the end of an experiment in union-management cooperation, which began with the appointment of the U.A.W.'s then president, Douglas Fraser, during Chrysler's dark days of 1980. Chrysler's board shuffle also sparked talk that the troubled company was streamlining itself for a merger with a foreign car company. Possible suitors: Honda, Fiat and Mitsubishi. Whatever Iacocca decides to do, he will have one less dissenting vote to worry about...
...stars who led them during the boom years with more conservative managers. Says Paul Ray Jr., an executive recruiter: "Instead of doing deals, now the emphasis is on cost control." On Wall Street during the past two years, more than 60,000 jobs have been lost as merger mania ended and the bull market stalled. Largely as a result, big accounting and law firms that served the merger makers have slashed their partnership rolls. Last month the accounting firm Peat Marwick abruptly dismissed 300 of its 1,875 partners, protecting profits by chopping highly compensated senior talent...