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Critics doubted that the merger would do much for either company. One problem: Sperry and Burroughs make mainframe computers that are largely incompatible. "It's a mismatch, like plaids and stripes," says Howard Anderson, chief executive of the Yankee Group, a research firm...
Wall Street analysts are often critical of corporate mergers because they mismatch corporate talent and know-how. But they were enthusiastic about the new Allied Signal, especially since Hennessy plans to sell some of the less profitable divisions in order to concentrate on aerospace. As the core business of both Allied and Signal, that group is expected to contribute more than 40% of total profits. After the planned divestitures, Allied Signal should have some $2.5 billion in cash on hand. "This is uncommon," says Frank Prezelski, an analyst at Shearson Lehman American Express. "The typical acquisition leaves the combined company...
...Harvard baseball team shivered to a two-touchdown victory over the Eagles yesterday, and the margin could have been greater. The 15-0. Greater Boston League mismatch was little more than a nine-inning endurance test...
Harvard-Colgate is the other first-round mismatch...
Could this classic mismatch have worked? Probably not. He was ungiving, and she was too taking. Tom seemed most content playing bridge, in bowler and brolly, with his wife's mother (Margaret Tyzack) and brother (David Haig). Viv imagined herself, with a mixture of impishness and foreboding, as the mistress of Dr. Crippen, the Edwardian wife murderer. Nice judgment, that: Viv is the picturesque victim slipping into madness, and Tom is the deadly St. Eliot, ( condemned because he took advantage of a sinner...