Word: mergers
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After Ridge tried and failed to push through his border-control merger, Bush warmed to the idea of taking on the bureaucracies directly by creating the new Homeland Security department to pick off some of their functions. "Let's take something away from all of them," he told aides. The White House is now practically boasting about the tangle Ridge got into trying to reorganize one single branch of the varicose Homeland Security structure. "When Tom Ridge had to call a meeting, he needed a conference room," says Hughes. "There were so many different people...
...merger of biology and digital technology gathers pace, it will generate debates as heated as the one now under way over human cloning. Mitchell predicts in a future much farther off than Kurzweil's a change in "what is meant by 'we'? As we become more mechanized and machines become more lifelike, the difference between living systems and machines will narrow. 'We' will eventually include machines...
...worked. The relationship between consumers and music has changed, and the record industry must find ways to adapt. EUROPEAN BUSINESS Merging Just Got a Little Easier Breaking up might still be hard to do, but two landmark cases by E.U. courts just made getting together in cross-border mergers easier. First the European Court of Justice radically restricted "golden shares," which permit governments to control privatized companies by blocking decisions like takeovers. The E.U.'s second-highest court then overturned the European Commission's 1999 decision to stop a merger between Airtours (now renamed My Travel) and First Choice...
...began working at UIS in 1966 as manager of accounting and finance and later became manager of the Harvard Computing Center and associate director of the Office for Information Technology. He was responsible for the merger of the University’s two data centers for the central administration and for research data into a singular center...
...monumental merger between Radcliffe College and Harvard University in October 1999 left many problems unsolved...