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INDICATORS Keeping It Together Mergers - out of fashion after a decade of behemoth-building deals - may have unfairly acquired a bad reputation, according to a study by the Milken Institute, a California think tank. The research, which examined 276 takeovers by public companies over a 15-year period, found more than two-thirds of the deals led to increased efficiency, as well as savings of about $28 billion overall...
...hijack Born in the U.S.A. for his 1984 re-election campaign, the singer developed a spare but effective political voice that he generally raises on behalf of liberal causes and the occasional liberal candidate. In 1991 he played a fund raiser for the Christic Institute, a radical think tank that has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of illegal covert action in Latin America. On the subject of America's current foreign policy, he is with the mass of public opinion. "I think the invasion in Afghanistan was handled very, very smoothly," he says...
...almost always vote. "The Irritable Voter is the one I'm afraid of," he says. "Someone who had something and lost it." For Democrats, the political beauty of the corporate scandals is that they "play into what people already believe" about Republicans--"that these guys are in the tank with corporate special interests," says Steve Elmendorf, chief of staff to House minority leader Dick Gephardt. "I don't see any downside to this for us." But when the interests of voters clash with the interests of donors, the Democrats too put on the brakes, helping kill McCain's demand that...
...wall clock, its face busted, stopped at exactly 11:02 a.m.; a melted rosary from the Urakami cathedral; and children's crumpled clothing. Television screens showing footage of the bomb's wasteland are dwarfed by a water tower, its steel legs snapped like toothpicks so that its rusty tank leans precariously to one side of the high-ceilinged gallery...
Yang heads the Boston-based think tank Foundation for China in the 21st Century, which advocates for democracy and constitutional rule of law in China—a more research-based approach to his pro-democracy work...