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From:Financial Services MarketingPeer-ReviewedThe Curse of the Bambino has taken twists and turns as countless as they were one-sided in the decades since the Coolidge administration. Taking baseball's most celebrated rivalry into a cybercafe in Boston's North End...
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From:Plastics Engineering (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDelta Plastics Corp., of Newark, N.J., and Essex Plastics, of Pompano Beach, Fla., have announced the formation of FlexSol Holding Corp., a private holding company that will provide capital for growth. Based in Pompano...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 17, Issue 24)The Army's Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Mow mouth, N.J., has awarded three contracts worth $5 billion to keep critical Defense Department systems operating. Under the five-year Rapid Response to Critical...
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From:Solid State Technology (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSTMicroelectronics (Grenoble, France), Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, CEA/LETI (Grenoble, France), and AIXTRON (Aachen, Germany) have entered into a joint project related to the development and characterization of...
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From:Ivey Business Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 4)As of this writing, Nortel Networks' stock has dropped from a high of $124 in October to a low of $31 on the news of diminished expectations for the coming year. Last October, John Roth was hailed as CEO of the year by...
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From:Ivey Business Journal (Vol. 64, Issue 6)FLYING HIGH If most Canadians recognize the names of Onex Corporation and its charismatic CEO, Gerry Schwartz at all, it is probably for the dramatic (and very public) failed attempt to take over Air Canada last...
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From:Microwave Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe common stock for Alamosa Holdings Inc. has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "APS."...
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From:Financial Services Marketing (Vol. 2, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedYou can almost hear Phil Rizzuto blurting out his trademark "Holy Cow" upon news of The Money Store ceasing home equity loan originations. First Union Corp., which acquired the subprime lender in 1998, made this...
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From:Microwave Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAlamosa Holdings Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to merge Southwest PCS into its operations in a transaction valued at approximately $218.2 M. The completion of the transaction is subject to certain conditions...
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From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPOWER AND PRESTIGE OOZE from the corporate pores of Citigroup. Its board of directors resembles a "who's who" of U.S. business executives. A former Secretary of the U. S. Department of Treasury -- Robert Rubin -- is a...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 109, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedGreenpeace has accused chemical manufacturer Unilever of dumping several metric tons of toxic waste from the company's mercury thermometer manufacturing plant into the southern Indian resort area of Kodaikanal and the...
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From:Financial Services Marketing (Vol. 3, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCapital One and Carnival Cruise Lines have launched a cruise financing program bundled with a co-branded credit card. account holders will be eligible for financing plans to purchase cruise vacations with a fixed,...
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From:Journal of Business Strategy (Vol. 22, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedHere are eight more people solidly behind the eight ball and their plans for setting up winning shots. You don't have to be a dot-com startup to have problems in this economy. For the last year, we've heard all those...
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From:Journal of Risk and Insurance (Vol. 76, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article considers the role of American International Group (AIG) and the insurance sector in the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the implications for insurance regulation. Following an overview of the...
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From:European Journal of Marketing (Vol. 30, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedConsumer concern about business and marketing ethics has been escalating since the 1970s. Ethical practices in the marketing of financial services in the UK can be best analyzed through a study of the traditional four...
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From:Plastics Engineering (Vol. 57, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe Kraton Polymers Business of Houston reports that New York-based private investment firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC has concluded its deal to purchase Kraton from the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. Currently,...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedROBERT TOMLINSON JR. was named CFO of Chicago-based online auctioneer Ubid, a majority-owned unit of CMGI Inc., a holding company that develops and operates Internet and fulfillment services companies....
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 104, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedDeborah Fiorito has been elected Dynegy Inc. senior vice president and chief communications officer. John U. Clarke has been re-assigned as executive vice president for retail, technology, strategic investments,...
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From:Power Engineering (Vol. 105, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedFrance's three major nuclear firms, Cogema, CEA Industrie, and Framatome ANP have agreed to integrate their operations under a new holding company, creating the largest nuclear industry company in the world. Annual...