Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which would have changed the face of writing at Harvard over the past century. However, The Advocate board found itself sorely split over the proposal, and finally rejected it by one vote. The alumni of The Advocate were said to have been extremely active in opposing the merger proposal...
...facing a mounting deficit. At the end of the first full year, in June of 1883, the paper was running a $700 deficit. In this situation, and aware that the editors of the more established Crimson were eager to get into daily journalism. The Herald began to think of merger. On October 1, 1883, the board of The Herald met to discuss joining The Crimson. In the words of one editor: "After a thorough discussion of the project, a unanimous vote was passed to make arrangements for their union, if suitable terms could be arranged." The Crimson was eager, incredibly...
...advertisers are trying to push. Under the proposal, for example, antipollution forces would be entitled to free time to rebut auto-company commercials. The FTC charged four big food companies (Kellogg, General Foods, General Mills and Quaker Oats) with monopolizing the breakfast cereal market, and tried to block a merger between two large drug firms (Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert). Last month the agency accused Xerox of illegally muscling competition from the $1.7 billion copier market...
...demonstrably good chance of recovery. GEPI'S usual therapy is to use government money to buy a minority, or in some cases a majority holding in an ailing company. Whenever possible the agency tries to find private firms to buy shares as well. Often GEPI arranges a merger with a stronger company. If a company's situation appears hopeless, GEPI may simply abandon it and concentrate on developing a substitute industry in the region to provide alternative employment. In the case of Castelfranco Veneto's Confitex, GEPI bought a 100% interest in the firm and streamlined...
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