Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YOUNG male law student, three-piece suit and curly sideburns: "I'm here to learn; how are you discriminated against?" Female lawyer, bellbottoms and dangling earrings, rattles off examples "from your own field, the courtroom." I think of the examples I could cite. My own university, where merger seems unwise because people might then urge-equal enrollment of women and men, and Harvard has a duty to provide our nation with leaders. Leaders. Men. My own university, where the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid told a Faculty meeting that continuation of coed housing would require renovation of Radcliffe dorms...
...family blocked the way. "They kept treating me like a snotty little brat who was running around with wild ideas that were going to ruin the business," he says. But after his father's retirement, John took over the company presidency in 1967, and a year later negotiated a merger with Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp. that neatly removed him from the Fairchild family's veto. It was no letdown financially, either. He now owns about 45,000 shares of Capital Cities stock, last week worth a total of $1,250,000, and draws an annual salary...
...consisted of shares of Four Seasons Nursing Centers, which later filed for bankruptcy. Hayden, Stone's capital has been further reduced by declines in the value of other borrowed shares. The firm has chopped salaries, cut back its staff and branch offices and sought refuge by negotiating for a merger with Walston & Co. Before that deal is consummated, Hayden, Stone may have to find an estimated $6,000,000 to pay off certain loans...
...report opposed merger because it would inevitably lead to a change in the male-female ratio...
...particular concerns we feel is that... the act of merger would stimulate the forces of change, and that, although at present there is no illegality in controlling such a ratio, it would be increasingly difficult to do so. The 4 to 1 ratio in admission of men and women has drawn little comment in the past because it represented essentially the housing capacity of the separate institutions...