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...alumni who felt dispossessed following the dissolution of Radcliffe as a college, and the establishment of Radcliffe as a home for visiting researchers.“There were a lot of unhappy alumni,” Dunn recalls. “I did talks around the country about the merger. I guess I thought if I thought this was a smart thing to do, maybe they would too. But the audience was quite hostile.”Dunn and fellow members on a search committee were simultaneously searching for a new dean during these tumultuous times. “Drew...
...what would be the largest financial-services merger ever, Britain's Barclays PLC bid for the Netherlands' largest bank, ABN Amro NV, for $91.16 billion. The result: a worldwide banking giant with 47 million customers...
...restructured state banks will be going after smaller accounts, issuing credit cards and loaning money to small- and medium-sized Vietnamese companies. Cany predicts the number of private banks in Vietnam will fall by at least half to less than 20 within five years due to failure or merger. Their only hope is to expand their reach and sophistication before competition heats up. "You can't afford to miss the boat," says Winsbury. "You've got to grow fast." After all, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities aren't much good to businesses that die young...
...proposal was introduced by Conant University Professor Stephen Owen, chair of the soon-to-be-defunct Department of Comparative Literature. Owen said the merger would create a “predictable curriculum,” allow for advising by “faculty centrally located rather than peripherally involved,” and provide other resources that “only a department can have...
...coincidence that this...had been organized by a pair of rogue CIA con-men who had ties to George Bush,” he said. Kolb was publicly associated with the investigation when his name was released after he helped call off a financial merger that would have framed Kerry. “My cover was blown. I was even more scared than I had originally been,” he said. He decided to write his second book “to protect myself. The more people that knew what happened, the safer I would...