Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germany are having a bout of prenuptial nerves. Though the two countries will not formally tie the knot until Oct. 3 -- the earliest practicable date -- the euphoria of unification has given way to a summer of unemployment, rising prices and political disillusionment. Both sides remain firmly committed to the merger, but East Germans have begun to fret over the economic disintegration of their country and West Germans worry about the price of preventing...
...would rather die than be humiliated," the Iraqi President thundered. "We will pluck out the eyes of those who attack the Arab nation." Baghdad cut off its only easy out when it dissolved the five-day-old provisional government it had established in Kuwait and announced an "eternal merger" of the country with Iraq. This left Iraq no way to retreat from Kuwait without a serious loss of face, something the megalomaniacal Saddam is not likely to accept...
...Germanys are finishing work on a unification treaty that paves the way for the legal merger of the two countries. It is expected to be finished by late August or early September...
...rising interest rates that boost their costs at home and new international capital-reserve requirements that curb their lending abroad. In Europe, considered the premier expansion market in the 1990s, the European Community's July 1 deregulation of financial flows across most members' borders is expected to accelerate the merger movement in the Continent's highly protected banking industry. West German banks are also preoccupied with the beckoning market of East Germany...
...Continent took place in April with the joining of two longtime Dutch rivals, Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and Amsterdam- Rotterdam Bank (Amro). The pair forms Europe's sixth largest bank and the 19th biggest in the world, with combined assets of $184 billion and 55,700 employees. "A merger is necessary to operate worldwide and in the Netherlands," says Roelof Nelissen, Amro's chairman...