Word: mergers
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After the attacks, Begin renewed Israel's charge that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who signed a merger agreement with Syria last year, had sent men and equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya...
Everyone agrees that the stalled construction does not signal a public policy Armageddon, but several professors, especially those dealing with the merger of the MPP and the CRP, are worried about how the school will house the students and faculty from the new program. Laurence E. Lynn, professor of Public Policy and chairman of the faculty committee hammering out details of the merger, refuses to even speculate about what will happen should the building not be finished by 1983; "I wish the building existed now. For every month delay, the strain gets worse," he says...
September 28--In a speech at the 13th annual kick-off of the Harvard College Fund drive, President Bok cites rising expenses, the proposed Harvard-Radcliffe merger, and the quality of undergraduate education as the major problems facing the University...
...films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will be a stronger competitor...
...influence be? He hopes to create a strong, unified, revitalized, conservative church, and that would be a remarkable achievement. But it is by no means clear that even a personality as powerful as John Paul's can work such a miracle. Last year he joined in launching formal merger talks with the Eastern Orthodox Church-for the first time since 1054. Consultations continue with Anglicans and Protestants. But the Pope's own emphasis on papal power may prove the ultimate stumbling block. Harvard Theologian George H. Williams, a Protestant expert on the Pope's thinking, believes that...