Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructive to learn that the impediments to merger are not "simple contractual arrangements"; raher, they are serious and relatively open male supremacist attitudes on the part of the Harvard administration. I ask the Harvard community, in particular the Radcliffe administration, to join in helping to make the Harvard administrators uncomfortable with these attitudes. Even if their minds cannot be changed, they can be forced to restrain themselves. They should not be allowed to enforce discriminatory practices...
...again, investors have been threatened with loss of the money and stock held for them by brokerage houses that have gone to the brink of insolvency-or fell over it. Repeatedly, the financial community has prevented disaster by rounding up new capital for the failing firm, arranging a shotgun merger or, as a last resort, ransoming customers' stock by making payments out of a $55 million New York Stock Exchange trust fund. Last week Wall Street managed the most dramatic rescue yet, but in doing so apparently exhausted its resources for continuing the cliff-hanger...
Naturally, I've given a good deal of thought to all aspects of the proposed merger. My conclusions add up to a firm opposition to it. (I'll be glad to discuss this with you at any time...
...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of Freshmen and Master of Mather House, wrote a letter on merger last year arguing strongly against an increased number of women at Radcliffe...
...that two can live richer than one. Adding a new dimension to the economic collaboration among Common Market countries, the Credit Lyonnais, which is France's second largest bank, and the Commerzbank, which is West Germany's third largest, formed a partnership. They stopped short of a merger, partly because Credit Lyonnais is owned by the French government, but agreed to coordinate both their operations and lending round the world. There will be a virtually unified network of branches serving clients of both banks and a free exchange of information and managers. In addition, said a Credit Lyonnais...