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...that hasn't slowed the latest blitz of deals. December 2004 saw $147 billion in mergers vs. $41 billion a year earlier, according to Thomson Financial. In January an additional $150 billion worth was announced. A recent survey by Bank of America Business Capital found that 23% of chief financial officers expect to do a major deal this year...
...Somalia programs. "It's not total destruction, but something pretty close to it," he says. The government-in-waiting in Nairobi has neither arms nor funds. When the Asian tsunami struck the country's Indian Ocean coast, ministers had to beg the United Nations to fly them in to survey the damage. But before they can begin rebuilding the country, they must face down the powerful Islamic courts and placate the businessmen. These groups form a powerful élite that has filled the vacuum left by the fading might of the warlords, who destroyed Mogadishu after Mohammed Siad Barre...
Just 1% of the relationships were homosexual; nationally, says Moody, the figure is about 2.5% for teens, whose sexual identities are still emerging. The data were collected in the kids' homes back in 1995 using a secure, computerized survey. Says Bearman: "There was no incentive...
...surveyed other women in MIT’s School of Science—and found that there were only 15 female senior faculty members, compared to 197 men. The survey led to the creation of a Committee on Women Faculty in 1995, tasked with studying gender discrimination at MIT, which Hopkins chaired...
...just as for oil and soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...