Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Arthurs and Schwalbe said the problems of merger are not serious, and will be worked out as the admissions offices work together...
...revenues have more than doubled, to $5.2 billion last year, and earnings have tripled, to $157 million; Government contracts have declined from half the company's business to less than a third. United's 1974 takeover of Essex International, a wire manufacturer, and its 1975 merger with Otis Elevator Co., the world's leading elevator manufacturer, were major reasons for the gains...
What to do with the Quad: the question has plagued almost everyone connected with the University since the "non-merger" merger of 1971 and perhaps as far back as the inception of co-educational classes in 1943. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life has debated it for five years. The suggestions that float around have ranged from the mundane to the absurd. Some have proposed housing all sophomores in the Yard, and all freshmen in the Quad (or the reverse) and switching the River Houses into two-class residences. Others suggested converting to four-class housing University-wide...
...purpose of the merger, of course, was to lower operating expenses for the loss-ridden Daily News. The deal, however, had the opposite effect. In the last year before joining up with the Times, Fanning's paper lost $650,000. A year later the red ink was even redder: $750,000. Worse, according to Fanning's lawsuit, Times Publisher Robert B. Atwood and his staff have tried to kill the competition by scaring off potential Daily News advertisers and subscribers, mismanaging the paper's financial affairs and letting its distribution system go to pot Says Kay Fanning...
Barring any miracles, the NBA's first merger season has been anti-climactic to say the least. The good teams are not exciting (Sorry, George and Dr. J.) and the exciting teams are not good (you're looking a little tarnished, Pearl...