Word: mergers
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...Aceralia, leaving Usinor and Germany's Thyssen-Krupp in the running for Cockerill. When the Germans pulled out, Usinor got Cockerill's mills by default. Now those same mills are part of the new company-the most expendable part. No surprise then that workers there greeted the merger announcement with a one-day walkout...
...maybe it was the sight of Mike screaming for drugs like a woman in labor. ("Shots - drugs - pain - I can take it - I'll take whatever you give me!") Maybe it was just that they'd gotten really excited about the prospect of heading into the Week 7 merger with a 6-to-4 advantage over their scraggly opponents...
...What next? The RTL stock swap left intact a cash horde of more than $10 billion, which Bertelsmann earned from its sale of stock in AOL after the online service announced its merger with Time Warner (TIME's parent). Though global in outlook, Bertelsmann has relatively few broadcast and Internet assets in North America, so the German giant could soon be trolling for bargains among companies that have been bloodied by the precipitous fall of the U.S. high-tech stock market nasdaq. The RTL deal also provided outsiders an intriguing glimpse into Bertelsmann's finances. Company officials...
...nice that there are males here," Levey said. "With the [Harvard Radcliffe] merger it's good that there are males here to share in the community...
...Second, Tom and Nicole. How many thousands of misty, reverent magazine stories were written about the union of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman? How perfectly suited and endlessly devoted they were to each other. But, as it turns out, it was a merger more than a marriage between two spoiled people who each wanted their...