Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merger of Warner Bros. and Turner Entertainment has unified the Looney Tunes collection, allowing the Brattle to compose a program that includes the first Bugs Bunny and Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, the first Warner cartoon to win an Oscar and several hilarious Chuck Jones shorts. The festival carefully includes all the famous Looney Tunes phrases--"What's up, Doc?" "I tawt I taw a putty tat!" and "Be vewy, vewy quiet"--but if you listen closely, the cartoons are replete with wry jokes and creative banter...
...cards were so shiny they might have been minted that morning--and not so Fisher and Mack could go on a shopping spree at Sears. No. They had already been shopping in a much bigger store: the stock market. The cards were part of their quarry, a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter Discover that signals an interest in common folks unprecedented at Morgan Stanley since it split from the J.P. Morgan bank...
...tude for us. Maybe Purcell figures that the price was right and that with commercial banks becoming big players in the brokerage business, he had to act. Or maybe he's hedging his bets. Plenty of people believe traditional retail brokerage is headed for extinction. Plenty also think this merger won't work. Mack denies it, but he's fuming over Purcell's getting the top job. And I'd like to be there the first time a working-stiff broker from Dean Witter tells a millionaire banker from Morgan to set aside 100 shares of a hot new-stock...
...Hilton/ITT combination would create the world's largest hotel-and-gaming company, with more than 650 hotels and 30 casinos from Las Vegas to Turkey to Uruguay. (Combined revenues: $8.5 billion, with ITT accounting for 77% of the total.) "This should be the merger of the century in the hotel-and-gaming industry," says Bjorn Hanson, chairman of the hospitality-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm...
Following its merger with BayBank, Bank of Boston will close its Harvard Square branch by the middle of the year, according to a news release issued by the Bank of Boston Corporation, also known as BankBoston...