Mergers also give each player who holds any interest at all in a chain a chance to sell his stock or to trade it in for shares of the acquiring chain.

Mergers are also unable to account for the offset from the Tully-Fisher relation without assuming the merged galaxies were quite different from those we see today.

Mergers of these railroads seemed a promising way for these companies to streamline operations and reduce the competition.

Headed by Samuel C. Thompson Jr., former director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, the center examines corporate, securities, tax, antitrust, and other legal and economic issues that arise in mergers and acquisitions.

It is well known for both its litigation and transactional capabilities, especially in International Arbitration, Capital Markets, Finance, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Ten companies selected the firm for its work in the areas of Corporate Transactions / Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment and Litigation.

Mergers of movie chains have complicated matters regarding which company provides online ticketing for a particular chain.

Mergers had been ongoing for several years.

Mergers between the two livestock centers ( the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases ( ILRAD ) and the International Livestock Centre for Africa ( ILCA )) and the absorption of work on bananas and plantains into the program of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ; now Bioversity International ) reduced the number to 16.

* The Monopolies and Mergers Commission's decision to require BA to give up 5, 000 annual slots at Gatwick to its competitors and to re-apply for some of British Caledonian's short haul feeder routes, as well as the subsequent decision of the Civil Aviation Authority ( CAA ) to award these routes to rival airlines.

On 27 June 2009, MCIL clinched the National Mergers and Acquisitions Award 2009 for The Most Innovative Deal of the Year.

Ratigan served as the Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News Service, and before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions, the U. S. Stock Market and IPOs.

Also on 19 December 2006, UK Watchdog the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced that the last date for each of Tata and CSN to announce revised offers for the Company, should they wish to do so, is 30 January 2007.

Mergers are an example of a corporate action where two companies that are competitive or complementary come together to increase profitability.

The conjoining of the two institutions, which was formally proposed by Donogh O ' Malley in the abortive Universities Mergers Act ( 1967 ) was strongly opposed by both universities and ultimately defeated.

Mergers and Accusations ( 1995 ) and Wills and Secession ( 1996 ), the first two installations, tell the story of Ellen marrying a Jon, a fellow lawyer, then leaving him and falling in love with Lesley.

Rupert Murdoch's News International acquired the Times titles in 1981, but the Conservative government never referred the purchase to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, mainly because the previous owners, The Thomson Corporation, had threatened to close the papers down if they were not taken over by someone else within an allotted time, and it was feared that any legal delay to Murdoch's takeover might lead to the two titles ' demise.

In December 2008 Commerzbank, who was in the process of acquiring Dresdner Bank, decided to close its Mergers & Acquisitions Unit.

Mergers can result in significant changes to morphology, as compared to the original galaxies.

Mergers of galaxies were common during the early epoch, and the majority of galaxies were peculiar in morphology.

Mergers and acquisitions ( abbreviated M & A ) is an aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or new location, without creating a subsidiary, other child entity or using a joint venture.

Mergers are generally differentiated from acquisitions partly by the way in which they are financed and partly by the relative size of the companies.

Mergers and acquisitions often create brand problems, beginning with what to call the company after the transaction and going down into detail about what to do about overlapping and competing product brands.

" Mergers of local congregations and use of the term " Unitarian-Universalist " in printed publicity date from 1932 or earlier.

Mergers and acquisitions have gradually become an important channel of investments in the economy, especially after 2005.

* Mergers of the low back vowels.

By 1971 the firm had established its Mergers & Acquisitions business along with Sales & Trading.

Mergers and joint agreements of professional football, hockey, baseball, and basketball leagues are exempt.

P & O objected and forced the issue to the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

Mergers with Daimler and Renault were also considered.

:"... thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the business is about to get: bigger ... Mergers, takeovers and acquisitions are becoming the norm in the television: industry.

Mergers enabled tighter: control of information ... The Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano: commented ..." Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few.

Media Mergers have become more prevalent in recent years, which has people wondering about the negative effects that could be caused by media ownership becoming more concentrated.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

“ Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership .” Global Issues, Updated: 02 Jan. 2009.

Badges can also be obtained that yield bonuses ranging from added moves to gradual health restoration during combat ; each consumes a set number of Badge Points ( BP ), meaning Mario can only equip a limited number of badges at a time.

Attacking within close range of an enemy will yield items, including point bonuses, weapon power-ups, and life.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.

These estimates indicated that the quantum yield for the exchange of chlorine with liquid carbon tetrachloride at 65-degrees is of the order of magnitude of unity.

Unfortunately, however, and for reasons to be discussed in the following chapter, no rate relationships can be made completely nondiscriminatory as long as all or some of the rates must be set above marginal costs in order to yield adequate revenues.

As far as atoms and their electron shells were concerned, not only did this yield a better overall description, i. e. the atomic orbital model, but it also provided a new theoretical basis for chemistry

Second … it offered a solution to the unemployment for the former samurai class … Finally, development promised to yield the needed natural resources for a growing capitalist economy .’

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

* Simulated annealing, a technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results

In an effort to alleviate the situation in East Turkistan, Ahmad Shah sent envoys to Beijing, but the talks did not yield favorable results for the Uyghurs.

Managers aim to capture the inefficiencies arising from the heavy participation of non-economic investors ( i. e., high income " buy and hold " investors seeking tax-exempt income ) as well as the " crossover buying " arising from corporations ' or individuals ' changing income tax situations ( i. e., insurers switching their munis for corporates after a large loss as they can capture a higher after-tax yield by offsetting the taxable corporate income with underwriting losses ).

Because of this breed ’ s increased muscle yield a diet containing higher protein is required to compensate for the altered mode of weight gain.

The introduction of herbicide-tolerant crops has the potential of reducing the number of herbicide active ingredients used for weed management, reducing the number of herbicide applications made during a season, and increasing yield due to improved weed management and less crop injury.

It happened so well for him, that he was next to the king when they were about to take him: he stept forth into the press, and by strength of his body and arms he came to the French king and said in good F ' rench, ' Sir, yield you.

A block cipher consists of two paired algorithms, one for encryption, E, and the other for decryption, D. Both algorithms accept two inputs: an input block of size n bits and a key of size k bits ; and both yield an n-bit output block.

For example, a central bank might set a target rate for overnight lending of 4. 5 %, but rates for ( equivalent risk ) five-year bonds might be 5 %, 4. 75 %, or, in cases of inverted yield curves, even below the short-term rate.

The central concept which is needed for this purpose is called categorical limit, and can be dualized to yield the notion of a colimit.

If certain coordinate systems are used, for instance, polar-toroidal coordinates ( common in plasma physics ) using the notation ∇ × F will yield an incorrect result.

In practice, however, it is extremely rare for this type of work to yield a counterexample and such efforts are generally regarded as mere displays of computing power, rather than meaningful contributions to formal mathematics.