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OP What’s the value of language? Well, in the testosterone-driven heights of major business, it seems the difference in terminology between describing a deal as a merger rather than a takeover can mean the difference of millions of dollars.
http://nytimes.com/2001/05/30/technology/30LUCE
I hope the poor employees of Lucent appreciate the importance of this difference to their chairman as they suffer a slow death over the next year or so.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Wordsworth maverick 05/30/01 04:28 PM Re: Wordsworth wow 05/30/01 11:35 PM Re: Wordsworth maverick 05/31/01 11:31 AM optics Bean 05/31/01 12:58 PM Re: optics maverick 05/31/01 01:02 PM Re: optics RhubarbCommando 05/31/01 01:21 PM Re: Wordsworth nancyk 05/31/01 03:09 PM Re: Wordsworth maverick 05/31/01 03:33 PM Re: Wordsworth wow 05/31/01 04:03 PM Re: Wordsworth maverick 05/31/01 04:10 PM Re: Wordsworth wordcrazy 06/01/01 12:08 PM Re: Wordsworth Sparteye 05/31/01 04:18 PM Re: Not to change the subject, but -- wow 05/31/01 04:41 PM Re: Wordsworth rodward 06/04/01 09:41 AM Re: Wordsworth maverick 06/13/01 10:57 AM
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