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...were a time of retrenchment for the University, as many a frustrated student activist has noted. The big changes--the "non-merger merger" with Radcliffe, the creation of the Core Curriculum, the opening of the Kennedy School of Government--had all been made by the time 1980 rolled around...
...competitive by forcing bloated companies to slim down and shape up. Yet the towering debt loads piled up during the raider era -- by both the attackers and the managers seeking to repel them -- have made many companies less flexible and far more vulnerable to an economic slump. While the merger- / and-acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm...
...Socialist Unity Party, as the Communist are officially known, was created in 1946 through the forced merger of the German Communist Party and the Social Democrats...
...Radcliffe student government that remained after the "non-merger merger" of Harvard and Radcliffe...
Time Warner had decided that the textbook division failed to fit well with its other publishing and entertainment businesses. At the same time, the sale will help reduce the $12 billion in debt that the company will assume when its merger is completed, sometime around year...