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...companies have been cutthroat competitors for years. Any merger is certain to prompt antitrust concerns. Together, for example, they control more than 23% of the funeral market in Florida, considered the El Dorado of the death business. In Seattle, Loewen owns a funeral home located on the grounds of an SCI-owned cemetery. The ftc has demanded company records to try to gauge the probable effect in states where both companies have a large, overlapping presence. Loewen says nine states, including Florida, have notified the company that they plan their own antitrust reviews. And Loewen itself has filed a defensive...
...Undergraduate Council] does not recognize merger tickets. They are unofficial," Braude said. "Every candidate can spend up to $100 in the campaign. Candidates endorsing each other have...
...class, it's generally held that the answer to this last question is no--people choose the lucrative fields because they are lucrative. The belief is that no one in their right mind would argue that handling a merger and acquisition is as noble a contribution to society as is teaching...
...chairman Robert Allen didn't wait long to complain that the playing field is not level. AT&T, he asserted, faces barriers to providing full service in the United Kingdom, where BT controls more than 90% of the local phone connections. Allen urged regulators to make scrutiny of the merger "a global priority of the highest order." In the U.S., where BT will ask for a waiver of the 25% ceiling on foreign ownership of American communications companies, such scrutiny could take up to a year...
...combo spells trouble for one company. "The merger doesn't bode well for AT&T," says Kevin Gooley, an analyst with Standard & Poor's. "It is going to make it much more difficult for them to compete internationally." Consumers could benefit because the merger will probably lower prices for international calls...