Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plans were drawn up for new construction to accommodate further increases, and to house displaced undergraduates when the Continental is converted to graduate student housing for next year. Presidents Bok and Horner both fovored construction at the Radcliffe Quad. With the final decision on the merger of Radcliffe and Harvard coming close, it was felt that not enough attention and money was being devoted to the Radcliffe Houses. Construction was seen as a device to upgrade the Radcliffe Quadrangle, and partially offset the emphasis placed on Harvard by prior decisions about housing and classroom facilities...
RADCLIFFE COLLEGE has gone through some changes recently. Some people think the advent of co-residential living and the non-merger merger arrangement means that Radcliffe has been submerged as a separate institution. Are they right? Robin Freedberg has some answers on page...
...plane industry, her nephew Frank Hedrick is crown prince; since 1968 he has been Beech president. The division of labor has worked well, piloting Beech from a $7.7 million loss in fiscal 1970 to a $7,000,000 profit the next year. Now the family management team has begun merger negotiations with troubled Grumman Aircraft, which lost $70 million in 1972 mostly because of cost overruns on the Navy's F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. Grumman officials contend that those troubles are now well behind them and that a merger between Beech and Grumman could provide a tremendous boost...
...merger would provide Hedrick another opportunity to test his unorthodox management theories. Unlike most corporate executives, he operates without specific goals in mind, preferring to concentrate on what he calls "constant aims," which amounts to doing "any job assigned to you better than the job has been done before." That is only one of his store of Dale Carnegie-ish homilies (another: "Don't forget to do today's chores or you won't be around tomorrow"). A bachelor until age 40, Hedrick is known for his love of golf and political conservatism. Strangely enough, neither...
...became mayor of Minneapolis. The Farmer-Labor Party was radical in its origins, with mostly rural, Scandinavian Protestant members and roots in the antimonopolist, Greenback and Populist movements. The Democrats were mostly urban and more conservative, with strong Irish, German and Catholic elements. Within a decade of the merger, the D.F.L. emerged as the dominant force in Minnesota politics, breeding a remarkable collection of national figures like Humphrey, Orville Freeman, Eugene McCarthy and Walter ("Fritz") Mondale...