Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next meeting, the delegation from East Germany will represent a government freely chosen in the first democratic balloting there since 1932. In coming months, the Germanys will work out the domestic legal and financial aspects of merger and will join in the so-called two-plus-four talks to end remaining Allied occupation rights and create a new security system around Germany...
Strong words, but Modrow hardly uttered them from a position of strength. With most of Modrow's countrymen in favor of unification and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl handling the merger as if it were a one-man takeover, Modrow is finding it difficult to get anyone except perhaps his closest relatives to consider him relevant. And with elections taking place Sunday, the Communist Prime Minister of East Germany has less than a week to go in an office that may not even exist by this time next year. Hans Modrow, 62, is the lamest of lame ducks: outgoing leader...
...predators include sharp-eyed lawyers, investment bankers and bargain hunters who have parlayed the business of profiting from failure into Wall Street's hottest growth industry. Ironically, many of the same financiers who loaded companies down with debt are now cashing in on the overleveraged firms' troubles. Not since merger madness first hit corporate America in the mid-'80s has so lucrative a financial field opened up so swiftly. Says Robert Miller, a Manhattan attorney who advises failing companies: "The buyout business of the 1980s has become the turnaround business of the 1990s." Concurs bankruptcy adviser Jay Alix...
...merger merger was finalized in 1971, when the colleges approved co-educational living within the houses. Still, small vestiges of the pre-merger era remind us of the absurdity of sex-segregated living: legend has it that hooks on the doors of some North House rooms were used by Radcliffe women to prop open their doors when hosting male guests...
What they came up with is a scheme insiders have dubbed "two plus four," which calls first for the governments of the two Germanys to meet, probably just after the March 18 elections in East Germany. They are to make internal arrangements for political and economic merger. When those have been agreed on, the four World War II powers -- the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France -- will join the discussions to resolve the external aspects of unification: the complicated issues of Germany's relationship to existing alliances, what troops may be stationed on German soil, formal recognition and security...