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...third best year for M&A activity in history. Morgan Stanley reckons the total volume of European transactions will hit $1 trillion for the year, or about 44% of the world total, and Paulo Pereira, the investment bank's European head of M&A, sees no sign of a slowdown anytime soon. "The first half of 2006 has to be the best seller's market for a long time," he says. While companies spent the first half of this decade reducing debt and cleaning up their balance sheets, now cheap money - thanks to low interest rates - has revived...
...retreat referred to took place on Sept. 13 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Somerville, Mass. It was at the retreat, to which all department chairs were invited, that Kirby first formally confirmed the rumored slowdown in faculty hiring...
...minutes shows that professors questioned the financial constraints given as the cause of the slowdown, pointing to Harvard’s $25.9 billion endowment. Some said the decision indicated a lack of long-term planning for faculty hiring on the part of the administration...
...Caucus’ working group on faculty planning was created primarily in response to this slowdown, and was designed in part to encourage three-year plans for faculty appointments, according to the Oct. 6 meeting minutes...
...part, Wagoner seems to have lost some of his customary cockiness, sounding more defensive in public appearances. He's also driving on a narrow mountain road. Even a slight slowdown in the economy or a spike in gas prices could put him on the edge as he braces for union negotiations that may determine whether GM survives intact. If there's any solace for Wagoner, it's that he isn't the only car guy in the hot seat. Even Carlos Ghosn, chief of Nissan, the automotive turnaround story of the decade, is experiencing a sales slump, and the company...