Harris, Richard. Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. x, 204. Illustrations. $19.95. Paper. In his many studies of building and developing the urban fringe, Richard Harris has helped define our understanding of twentieth-century suburbs. Creeping...
Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan, worried the stress of the job was changing him, announced Thursday he will resign at the season's conclusion but remain with the team as a senior adviser. "This has been creeping in and creeping in," said Ryan, who nearly broke...
It sounds counterintuitive, but the truth is when something happens very slowly, people don't see it coming. They don't notice the debt creeping up on their credit cards, they don't see their weight creeping up and they don't see the slow drift toward decadence in Hollywood's movie rating...
New orders at U.S. factories are creeping along at 0.2% monthly growth, according to new Commerce Department data. Wall Street forecasters earlier had projected monthly orders would grow by 0.5% or more. But, modest readouts from the surveys of purchasing managers suggest that soaring crude and...
WASHINGTON AFP — Pollen from a genetically modified grass was found 21 kilometers (13 miles) from where it was planted, scientists reported, raising fears of transgenic crossbreeding. Monsanto and Scotts created a creeping bentgrass for use on golf courses and await a green light from US authorities for its...
Four years of falling interest rates have caused many consumers to become complacent about sub-6% home mortgages, 3% home equity lines and no-interest car loans. But if you're a borrower, the trend is no longer your friend. Mortgage rates have been creeping higher since March. If the Federal Reserve raises...
BSKYB'S PLANNED share buy-back faces possible defeat at the satellite broadcaster's forthcoming annual meeting, according to a number of its leading independent shareholders. There is widespread opposition to the plan, which would raise the shareholding of News Corporation, chaired by Rupert Murdoch, from 35 per cent to...
Feb 05, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) A regulatory probe is certain in any Foster's Group takeover bid for fellow Australian wine producer, Southcorp. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's ACCC commissioner for mergers and acquisitions, Ross Jones, warned...
Byline: Bill Beerworth May 07, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There is a lot to be learned from the private equity attempt to take over Australian airline, Qantas. The flood of private equity money seeking takeover targets has changed...
LUXEMBOURG AFP — Luxembourg Treasury Minister Luc Frieden said that an amended takeover bill would not keep Mittal Steel from pushing ahead with its hostile bid for rival Arcelor. The Luxembourg government, which is Arcelor's biggest shareholder with a 5.6 percent stake and is opposed to the takeover, is...
FALLUJAH, Iraq AFP — Iraqi rebels are creeping back into areas cleared by US marines in Fallujah, where the military continues daily to secure homes and try to seize weapons caches before they can be used to again attack US and Iraqi troops, marines say. "The last few days...
Takeover Defense Expenditures: Deductibility Not Necessarily Precluded by National Starch Introduction When confronted with a takeover attempt, a target corporation's board of directors must evaluate the tender offer in view of its fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. Regardless of whether a takeover attempt is "friendly" or...
The turf industry in the last decade has seen doubling in number of new creeping bentgrass [Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris (Huds.) Farw. and A. stolonifera var. stolonifera Huds.] cultivars, many with unknown variability and lineage. Understanding the genetic diversity of putative parental and wild stocks would be useful in plant...
The development of U.S. state takeover law in the past three decades has produced considerable and quite possibly excessive protection for incumbent managers from hostile takeovers. Although the shortcomings of state takeover law have been widely recognized, there has been little support for federal intervention because of the concern that...
It will be make-or-break time for the European takeover directive this week, as European Union officials meet in a last ditch attempt to save it from collapse. Members of the European Parliament and European Council met last Tuesday, with the intention of agreeing on...
NEW YORK FNS -- The world of corporate takeovers has spawned a new and colorful business vocabulary--white knights, scorched earth, bear hugs, crown jewels and more. But right now the hot strategy in defending against hostile takeovers is the "poison pill." Since...
It has been seen that not all mergers are welcome. It discusses possible motivations for takeover defenses. All forms of M&A activities may affect firm both as threats and opportunities. Some of the measures, which can be adopted, include: efficiency, financial characteristics that make a firm vulnerable to takeover, financial...
ROME AFP — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had asked the French government to be impartial in the event of a takeover bid by Italian power group Enel for French utility company Suez, amid signs of mounting protectionism in Europe. The demand came as Italian Finance Minister...
