Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volvo chief sought a merger with his smaller but more profitable Swedish rival, Saab-Scania. The engagement was announced, but Saab-Scania became worried about Volvo's decline and broke it off. After Falldin's government refused to help, Gyllenhammar secretly turned to Norwegian Premier Odvar Nordli...
...protracted delay. I compared the 14 years it took me to try the Famous Players Lasky Corporation case, where there was no judicial control, with the three-year period that because of Judge Weinfeld's careful control would obviously see the complete disposal of the merger case (Bethlehem/ Youngstown...
LAST SPRING Presidents Bok and Horner signed an agreement between the two schools they head supposedly clarifying for all time the status of Radcliffe under the "non-merger merger" of 1971 and to explicate the ties of the school's administration to its 2000 undergraduate women. For some reason people are still confused, and recent problems with the work-study program and the National Direct Student Loan program show that undergraduates are being hurt by the confusion...
JIMMY BUFFETT USED TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. His music was just about the first consistent merger of Caribbean rhythms and percussion with American folk-rock pop, and it wasn't just pop to begin with. Buffett grew up in Mobile, Alabama, listening to the same Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers classics that whelped the Grand Ole Opry Empire of the Nashville Moguls, a philistine crew who breed for violin affinity, not for rasp'n'roll or the truckstop gut-wrench. But the Buffett derivation went the other way, toward the fringes. Lotta room out there on the fringes: Willie...
...John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, discussed Conant's contributions to Harvard during his 20 years as President. His accomplishments included development of the General Education program, merger of classes for Harvard and Radcliffe students, and structuring of the previously undefined tenure selection system...