* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

In 1992, a Crop Diversification Program of the local government unit ( LGU ) was implemented with mango as " export winner ".

The current Western Economic Diversification Minister is Rona Ambrose, with Lynne Yelich as the Minister of State ( Western Economic Diversification ).

* Diversification opportunities with the U. S. military

Diversification continued with the 1989 purchase of the View-Master / Ideal Group, which brought to the company the View-Master, Magna Doodle and the Ideal Nursery line of dolls.

* Ericson, Per G. P .; Anderson, Cajsa L .; Britton, Tom ; Elżanowski, Andrzej ; Johansson, Ulf S .; Kallersjö, Mari ; Ohlson, Jan I .; Parsons, Thomas J .; Zuccon, Dario & Mayr, Gerald ( 2006 ): Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils.

* Hossein Akhani, Gerald Edwards, Eric H. Roalson: Diversification Of The Old World Salsoleae S. L.

Hossein Akhani, Gerald Edwards, Eric H. Roalson: Diversification Of The Old World Salsoleae S. L.

& Hotton, C. L. Diversification of early angiosperm pollen in a cladistic context.

Diversification of the economy into non-hydrocarbon industries remain a long-term issue.

Diversification in the early 1990s saw the rise of information technology, led by call centres which made use of the city's bilingual workforce.

Diversification is still a long-term issue for this over-exposed economy.

* Diversification results in a reduction of investment risk.

Diversification from traditional flue cured tobacco to include burley tobacco and other modes of agriculture is underway.

Diversification refers to the number of different securities in a fund.

Diversification and biogeography of Juniperus ( Cupressaceae ): variable diversification rates and multiple intercontinental dispersals.

Others believe that Swadesh proposed early linkages, but believed that languages diverged immediately among peoples, as he expressed in his major, but unfinished work, The Origin and Diversification of Language ( 1971 ), published posthumously.

Diversification of tanagers, a species rich bird group, largely follows lowlands to montane regions of South America.

* Portfolio Diversification benefits of Investing in Stamps by Chris Veld, University of Stirling.

* Diversification: Lenders to a small number of borrowers ( or kinds of borrower ) face a high degree of unsystematic credit risk, called concentration risk.

Diversification touched his other activities.

Diversification into new lines of business began in the 1920s.

* Diversification ( new markets, new products ): Mohen A. S, Bion Products, Selectron Ltd, bk

Mapping this theory to business yields these familiar conditions: Entrepreneurship, Success and Growth, Diversification.

* Defence Diversification Agency, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Related regional development posts include Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister of Western Economic Diversification.

He was a member of Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government, serving in cabinet as Canada's tenth Minister of Western Economic Diversification and as Minister of State for Sport.

He was appointed to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's cabinet on January 15, 2002, serving as Secretary of State for both Western Economic Diversification and Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

He was named Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State for Sport on July 20, 2004.

* Western Economic Diversification Canada.

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