Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slowing to a trickle. Last decade the county grew only 2%, while nearby Franklin, Jefferson and St. Charles counties posted population gains ranging from 29% to 55%. Now St. Louis County is starting to have trouble supporting its schools and services. Already city officials are beginning to talk merger again, though this time the suburbanites do not seem so hostile...
...help from Japan cannot come too soon for Detroit. Chrysler continues to search for a merger partner, and last week Ford Motor Co. publicly rejected a suggestion that it combine with Chrysler. Ford estimated that its own losses for the first quarter of 1981 could approach $500 million, even worse than the $270 million that Chrysler is expected to lose during the same period...
AMERICA HAS ALWAYS escaped through pop music. Imported African slaves sang while working to alleviate the pain and make sport of their masters. Through the Wars and the Depression, jazz provided hope and release. In the '50s, rock-and-roll developed as a merger of black and white music and helped loosen old prejudices as well as restrictive morals. In the '60s, music became an outlet for political protest and drug experiences...
...that the privately-held Hearst Corporation is doing very well, laying to rest rumours of its failure in many cities. The book also demonstrates that the corporation prefers its more respectable and more rewarding magazines to the newspapers; it would rather let the latter drift towards dissolution, sale, or merger, than try to figure out how to revive them. Exceptions to this doctrine occur only if an energetic family member--Randy in San Francisco, George Jr. in Los Angeles--wants to seek out the lost formula...
...heels of protests from neighboring countries and from some of the eleven factions that constitute the unwieldy Transitional Government of National Unity, official talk of the proposed "merger" with Libya has almost disappeared. "Nobody even mentions it any more," says a Western diplomat. Indeed, Chad has requested that the U.S. and other Western powers, who withdrew their representatives when the fighting broke out last year, reopen their embassies as soon as possible. But many countries appear reluctant to do so because they do not wish to give even tacit approval to a Gadaffi takeover. The Organization of African Unity...