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...many large companies still disdain the idea of mergers and acquisitions. To this day, there has never been a successful hostile takeover in Japan. Horie looked to smash these conventions. Rather than expanding slowly over many years, he discovered he could generate outsized growth by rapidly acquiring smaller, financially weaker prey, typically using Livedoor stock as the currency. He cobbled together an empire by purchasing no less than 50 firms, often with the help of so-called special-purpose entities, stock swaps, and other sophisticated financing techniques that are fairly routine in most mature economies, but are still regarded...
...earlier this month, disaster struck another West Virginia mine. A fire at Alma No. 1 last week left two people dead--and put new pressure on the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), which regulates mining operations. House Democrats are asking whether MSHA oversight has been not only weaker but also more secretive under the Bush Administration. Sago was cited for 208 alleged safety violations in 2005, Alma No. 1 for 95. In the past, the MSHA made its inspectors' full notes public, but since 2004, it has released only briefer citations. Critics say the inspectors' notes provide more...
...that is so is still unclear, but Cabeza doesn't believe the brain is programmed to get stronger as it ages. Rather, he acknowledges, in many ways it gets weaker, with neurons processing information less efficiently. The bilateralization may be a trick the brain uses to compensate for the decline, sometimes integrating the hemispheres so efficiently that our thought and reasoning processes are actually better than they were before...
Though Harvard’s out-of-conference victories will certainly garner it favor with the NCAA selection committee in the spring, the Crimson will have to start playing better in the first 40 minutes—especially against weaker league foes—if it doesn’t want to rely on capturing the automatic bid given to the winner of the end-of-year ECAC tournament...
...played as young and as scared as I’ve ever had a team [play],” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We couldn’t have been weaker or more conservative...