Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard. Pittenger serves on the Athletic Facilities Planning Committee and an ad hoe committee to study the R?dcliffe merger proposal as it effects services and athletics...
Overstated Profits? Critics insist that pooling usually conceals the true price that an acquiring company has paid to take over the assets of another firm. Hamer H. Budge, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, complained in congressional testimony last month that some merger-minded companies in consequence can show "instant earnings." Briloff gives this example: In 1966, the Gulf & Western conglomerate issued stock worth $185 million in exchange for the stock of Paramount Pictures. At the time, Paramount's assets had a book value of $100 million, so Gulf & Western recorded the assets as costing only $100 million...
...merger, which will create the world's largest printing-publishing-papermaking combine (annual sales: $1.1 billion), will bring a much-needed infusion of management and money to I.P.C. The company publishes the Daily Mirror, Britain's largest daily (circ. 5,000,000), several gaudy Sunday tabloids and 200 trade and women's magazines; it has big holdings in British commercial TV and a 30% interest in Boston-based Cahners Publishing Co., which puts out 37 trade magazines...
...Faculty yesterday approved coed housing for the next academic year-whether or not the merger goes through-but declined to limit it to the two-to-one male-female ratio recommended by the Committee on Coresidential Living...
...effect, the Justice Department simply approved of what Ling was already trying to do. Financially hard-pressed, he put LTV's 55% holdings in Braniff on the block several months ago. Now the trustbusters have given him three years to sell out. The merger trend in the airline industry should make Braniff relatively easy to dispose of. Wall Streeters think that Pan American and Eastern are potential buyers. On the other hand, LTV's unsuccessful attempt in January to sell Braniff to Norton Simon Inc. may indicate a desire to find a buyer outside the airline industry...