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...President Reagan, the U.S. Army last week chose a U.S.-French consortium to supply it with a sophisticated, $4.3 billion field-radio system. In one of the largest U.S. military contracts ever awarded for a foreign-designed system, the Army picked RITA, a joint venture by France's Thomson-CSF and GTE of Stamford, Conn., and turned down a competitive system offered by the British-American combine of Plessey Co. and Rockwell International...
...Make a Deal With merger mania back in fashion, deals are sprouting across Europe this spring. Globally, companies and investors struck deals totaling $589 billion in the first quarter, $91 billion more than a year ago, says Thomson Financial, which calculates that the level of activity in the past six months is the highest since 2000. What's propelling the merger boom? The rise of private equity investment groups, including U.S.-based Carlyle Group, which announced last week that it has raised about $2.2 billion to spend on European acquisitions. Such firms accounted for more than 10% of European deals...
...when so much rides on SAT scores and when parents are looking for every possible competitive edge for their children, it's no wonder that exam-time nutrition is becoming the next frontier in test prep. Thomson Peterson's, a national test-prep firm, has created a diet section on its website to introduce students to more healthful pre-exam nutrition. And private tutors are increasingly offering food strategies as part of their curriculum...
...companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile-phone-service provider China Unicom, Ping An Insurance and oil giant Sinopec. Zhu has an additional $10 billion in deals in the pipeline. He also hooked up France's Thomson with Chinese electronics company TCL?a deal that in 2004 created the world's largest television maker after it merged both companies' TV-manufacturing businesses under TCL management...
...companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile-phone-service provider China Unicom, Ping An Insurance and oil giant Sinopec. Zhu has an additional $10 billion in deals in the pipeline. He also hooked up France's Thomson with Chinese electronics company TCL--a deal that in 2004 created the world's largest television maker after it merged both companies' TV-manufacturing businesses under TCL management...