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More important, the Northwest-Continental link may represent the end of an era of chaos that began with deregulation in 1978. Midsize carriers such as U.S. Airways are viewed as ripe for merger. "In a mature industry, if you want growth you have to acquire your neighbor or form an alliance," explains Kevin Murphy, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover. "And that's what they've done...
Business Bytes The bulls are running on Wall Street; good Asian news and talk of a drug merger had the Dow up near 200 in afternoon trading. The merger? Only the biggest ever. Get the numbers anytime, by index or stock by stock
...circuses scam?" On the contrary, I believe Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that routinely pits each against all in a relentless competition for parking spaces and aisle seats, to achieve the ecstatic merger with the mass represented by the wave or the chop. Besides, if this is the old Roman bread-and-circuses ploy, someone seems to have left out the bread...
...Echo failed after one term, leaving The Herald as the champion of daily news--but deeply in debt after the struggle. Its board voted to present a merger proposal to The Crimson, which eagerly accepted. Four days after Herald editors conceived of the idea, Harvard readers found themselves reading one daily paper, The Herald-Crimson, which would one year later change its name back to The Crimson...
Over the next two decades The Crimson made athletics an editorial priority, bemoaning the lack of participation in the early part of the century and forming its own teams. After the merger, the paper began to see fewer extras, but the sports board turned the trend around. The Crimson had post-game extras on the street just minutes after the game was over. When football seemed on the brink of demise, The Crimson ran an aggressive editorial, petition, and donation drive to save the sport...