Word: mergerism
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...fisted attack on the most prominent Russian industrialist—and its seizure of 44 percent of Yukos—only makes the business climate more unpredictable and unattractive. Indeed, capital has once again started to flee from the country, and it now looks as though an anticipated merger of Yukos with Exxon Mobil is on the ropes...
...wake of divisive year-long battle over the ultimate closure and merger of several of the district’s 15 elementary schools, vocal Cambridge parents promised to vote Walser down because of her support of the consolidation plan...
...first-term incumbent’s stance on the consolidation debacle may have contributed to his defeat. Council members have accused Price of failing to take a consistent stance on the process. Amidst the chaos of last year’s fight, Price proposed and then retracted a controversial merger plan last November...
...smaller faction that still favors military apocalypse. Still, the new Shining Path's role model - and partner, say analysts - is the 18,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces (farc) in neighboring Colombia, whose gratuitous violence and narco-wealth have made them a mafia in rebel fatigues. A farc-Shining Path merger is the last thing South America's economically beleaguered Andes region needs. In the Lima shantytown of Raucana - the only community Shining Path ever built in its bloody heyday - shopkeepers like Maria are now afraid to even talk about the group. The Shining Path, she insists, "are still watching...
JILL GREENTHAL Media Maven In the media business, Greenthal, 47, is a rainmaker, having wrangled, among other things, the $50 billion merger of AT&T and cable operator TCI in 1998. She recently left Credit Suisse First Boston, where she comanaged the global-media investment-banking practice, to join private investment firm Blackstone Group. There she will continue to work with media companies as a senior managing director for the firm's growing mergers and acquisitions business...