will be discussing is Pfizer and Wyeth. This was the largest merger since AT&T acquired Bell South in 2006 in the amount of 86 billion dollars. Pfizer is the world’s largest drug company and has been in existence since the mid 1800’s and at the time of acquisition Wyeth was the ninth largest. The Pfizer merger finalization happened in October 2009 and the final cost was 68 billion. Before Pfizer bought Wyeth their stock was trading at $17.45 as of January 23‚ 2009 (Bloomberg Business Week)
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Allison Hwang Swanson 10:30 11/16/2012 Reconstruction’s Failure Although the Civil War finally managed to come to a close‚ the end of the war wasn’t exactly met with celebration. Instead‚ the Civil War brought up many new problems that were left unresolved. In order to solve these problems‚ the congress took responsibility and worked its way to "reconstruct" our nation. The main purpose of the "Congressional Reconstruction" was to ’establish and protect the citizenship rights of the freedmen’
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gangs and guns. If he did not live in the inner streets of Roanoke‚ Va.‚ he would probably be alive today. In most other parts of the country‚ you can have an argument with one of your best friends and not get killed over it. Blake was shot six time s by a good friend over an argument about a former girlfriend. Brent Staples grew up in the same type of atmosphere as his little brother Blake. As Staples explains in paragraph four of "A Brother’s Murder‚" he chose a different lifestyle.
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Paul Krugman Paul Krugman is one of the most successful columnists in The New York Times. Some of his best articles that helped him win a Nobel Prize on October 13‚ 2008 were “The Great Illusion;” “Fuels on the Hill‚” and “Running Out of Planet to Exploit.” Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and is also a professor of Economics at Princeton University. Mr. Krugman received his Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT
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powerful angel of a mother and his two brothers‚ and follows him through his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic career at the New York Times. The author states at the beginning of the book that readers will laugh and cry reading it. He was right on the money with both of these points. The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing. The father left the family a number of times‚ offering no financial assistance and stealing whatever he could before he left. When he was there‚ he was usually drunk
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The Twitter Trap STUDENT NAME: Pretty Vaddi Student Number: 300782105 COMM 170 Instructor: Evelyn Holmes The Twitter Trap Bill Keller in “The twitter trap” published in The New york Times (18 May 2011) notes that he felt as though he had poisoned his daughter by allowing her onto Facebook. He equates it to giving a drug and sees it as eroding a youth’s intellect or skills development memory skills‚ math skills‚ penmanship‚ innate sense of direction‚ attention span‚ problem solving and decision
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worker’s week’s wage. Most people could not afford newspapers and therefore could not receive daily news. In 1833‚ a cheap newspaper was introduced that cost only a penny per paper. The Industrial Revolution had made printing such a cheap paper possible‚ and the new “Penny Press” newspaper became an instant hit. No yearly subscription was necessary‚ and the majority could afford to read the daily news. This made people in both England and America more aware of current events‚ and also led to a dramatic
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play was scripted in my in my analysis of the play I found a never before seen creative surrealism used to captivate an audience. Clive Barnes of the New York times summed up the essence of Adrienne Kennedy’s work when he wrote “While almost every black playwright in the country is fundamentally concerned with realism--LeRoi Jones and Ed Bullins at times have something different going but even their symbolism is straightforward stuff–-Miss Kennedy is weaving some kind of dramatic fabric of poetry” (NYT
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base with many people‚ e-mail is not the better alternative to face-to-face communication within businesses. You must utilize face-to-face communication. Without it you cannot effectively use email without conflict and miscommunication. (NY Times 2007) Face-to-face contact has a more lasting effect‚ gives you a personal connection and a richer quality of information. Where an email might end up unread in a full inbox‚ somehow vanished or just disregarded face-to-face communication gives everyone
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A Star with No Faults By Claire Fox From chart-topping novels to witty brotherly videos‚ John Green is not your ordinary writer. With five novels in seven years‚ the New York Times bestselling author has acquired numerous awards‚ along with being a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize twice. John authored Looking for Alaska‚ An Abundance of Katherines‚ Paper Towns‚ The Fault in Our Stars‚ and co-wrote Will Grayson‚ Will Grayson with David Levithan. Although Green’s young adult novels
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