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...Overlap forced universities to commit themselves to spending whatever it took to bring in the class that was [best] for the school to satisfy their social imperative," Campbell said. "This is consistent with the requirements the federal government imposes for the awarding of financial...
What made the Time Warner-U S West merger possible was an accident of geography: although U S West covers 14 states and Time Warner has cable franchises in 36 states, there is almost no overlap in the territories they cover. (Even so, the deal had to be crafted to avoid various regulatory pitfalls.) The way the transaction is structured, U S West pays Time Warner $2.5 billion over four years -- $1 billion to upgrade Time Warner's cable systems and the rest to reduce its debt (which had ballooned to $16 billion since the 1989 merger of Time...
Oates, who is not a member of the AHA, vigorously and angrily denied all the accusations. He argued that any resemblances between his book and Thomas' were due simply to a reliance on the same historical documents or to an inevitable and entirely innocent overlap between separate descriptions of the same scene or event. He received some impressive support when 23 Lincoln or Civil War historians, including C. Vann Woodward of Yale and James M. McPherson of Princeton, signed a public statement claiming the plagiarism accusations against Oates "are totally unfounded...
...Godmother calls on her numerous helpers which include four male dragonflies and four fairies, one for each season, to transform Cinderella. The added scene involving beautiful set changes and an increased musical pace creates a sense of the fantastic in the overlap between the real and the sublime. The angular movements of the dragonflies add a modern touch to this scene and the spectacular performances by the four season fairies carry the first...
...groups overlap in providing educational programs," says Jewett. "To some degree, they probably hadn't worked as close together as they should...