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...industry and endangering German jobs," he told industry title Tier Bild. Rossmann claimed that while the products come from all over, "an exact specification is not possible." If Schröder can't find a better line than that, he may end up in the doghouse. Holiday Hookups A rash of late-year megamergers struck the U.S., including health-care firm Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant; the long-awaited $10.3 billion Oracle-PeopleSoft marriage; phone provider Sprint's $35 billion merger with Nextel; and the uniting of software companies Symantec and Veritas in an all-stock deal...
...would have been unsatisfactory to the England of 1910 if the new King had made any rash attempt to champion the peers and the prospective tax payers. This fact His Majesty definitely ascertained by forcing Mr. Asquith to go to the polls for a general election. When the Prime Minister was returned without loss of strength and the Lords still continued obstinate, George V promptly commanded Mr. Asquith to announce that His Majesty would "consider it his duty" to create the 500 peers if necessary, and the House of Lords, appalled, hastily passed the Parliament Bill by a majority...
...this first crisis and its orderly, inevitable solution the tempo of George V's reign was set. Never in the Silver Jubilee period (1910-35) have any of His Majesty's governments taken, from the point of view of high policy within the Empire, a step thoroughly rash or irretrievable. For years after the World War, truculent Ireland was torn with the bloodiest of civil strife-1,200 outrages within a year and the shooting down in London itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd...
Most recently, aides for Yushchenko have alarmingly called for President Kuchma to fire Yanukovich immediately, or face criminal prosecution if he does not comply. Kuchma is correct to resist such rash moves; he has instead urged further discussion and compromise...
...this “rash of penalties” according to Grumet-Morris that did the Crimson...