Diversification continued in 2007 when Houchens announced that it would acquire Hilliard Lyons, a full-service stock broker and investment firm based in Louisville, from PNC Financial Services.

* 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.

Diversification came with a shareholding in L ' Oréal in 1974.

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 included the acquisition of a van hire firm, and development of the PSV / HGV driving school business inherited from Shanks.

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 can, therefore, increase the financial health of the company.

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

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.

* 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.

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.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

`` As Mrs. Morris may be in some want before that time '', Lafayette continued, `` I am going to trouble you with a commission which I beg you will execute with the greatest secrecy.

Early in the present century, W. H. Stevenson continued the attack with a savage article against Guest.

The war could have continued many years with many thousands killed on both sides.

May the Divine Speaker in Heaven bless this country with Sam Rayburn's continued service here for years to come.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.

Mr. Clark still has to use rotenone with potatoes grown on the least fertile fields, but he has watched the insect damage decrease steadily and hopes that continued use of compost and leaf mulch will allow him to do without it in the future.

William's threat that under no conditions would he allow `` freedom-conscious '' slaves to mix with his own was not carried out, for the plantation continued in operation as before.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.

The international theme will be continued with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will give in the Racquet club after the tea.

National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

Attendance continued to run ahead of last year's during the five-day show, with clear skies helping attract fairgoers.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.

Weak reputational cues such as eyespots may become unimportant if there are stronger cues present and may lose their effect with continued exposure unless reinforced with real reputational effects.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

On the one hand, the new democratic institutions worked, notably the National Assembly, with the active participation of UNITA's and the FNLA's elected MPs-while José Eduardo dos Santos continued to exercise his functions without democratic legitimation.