Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer conversion of spoken words to typed text was "around the corner." Today we are still unable to duplicate this simple human function, let alone reasoning. We cannot say that such things will never happen. We can say, however, that we have no scientific basis for forecasting the merger of human and machine intelligences at any time, let alone in ten or 1,000 years...
...Vicory Stoughton, who assumed the post on March 1, said yesterday he plans to coordinate the merger of the administration of the division with two other Boston hospitals...
...methods, sales that rose reliably in good times and bad-all these were qualities of the beer business a few years ago. Now the $16-billion-a-year industry is being shaken by a costly battle for market shares that has sent some brewers to search for cash-heavy merger partners, other companies to reassess their marketing strategies, and nearly all the well-known firms to bring out new brands to curry the customers' fickle favor. Small regional brewers can scarcely keep afloat, with the result that sales are increasingly concentrated among the Big Five. Since 1972, Anheuser-Busch...
...over methods to recoup. Chairman Daniel McKeithan Jr., an Uihlein in-law before his divorce in 1974, has brought in some outside executives and is seeking a new advertising agency to change the company's cheap-beer image. Schlitz is also thought by some to be for sale; merger talks with cigarette-making R.J. Reynolds Industries (Winston, Salem, Camel) broke off three weeks...
...supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. After the election Humphrey brought the two together in a merger that has dominated Minnesota politics ever since. Later he pushed out the Communists, who had become influential in the new Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, thereby earning the enduring enmity of the far left...