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...June's European elections. Word that he was on the case, and that the board of the troubled national carrier was willing to step down, sent share prices up nearly 3%. Analysts say Alitalia's long-term survival requires merging with a larger carrier. The company had hoped to piggyback on the Air France-KLM deal, but was told it first needed to move toward privatization. Even Letta might not pull that off. - By Jeff Israely while you were sleeping U.S. mobile-phone operator Cingular landed its U.S. rival AT&T Wireless, trumping British bidder Vodafone with a late-night...
...many Japanese designers, collaboration also allows them to piggyback on the success of already established street brands. Japanese are even more attuned than Americans to the iconography of consumerism. This is, after all, an animation-crazed culture in which characters like Doraemon, Hello Kitty and Pikachu adorn everything from refrigerators to boxes of seaweed sprinkles. Consumers, especially the key youth segment, prefer splashing out on recognizable icons?an almost Pavlovian response to a society awash in symbolism. No surprise then, that one of the details that Takizawa is most proud of in his collaboration with Champion...
...influence is the plight of the typical investor, who just wants to learn a thing or two about the market. Yes, Buffett still says plenty about how to find value, and his archive of letters on the Net amounts to a timeless library on the issue. Investors can piggyback Buffett by investing in Berkshire--if, that is, they can muster the $61,700 it takes to buy a single "A" share. Even the "Baby Berks," or "B" shares, which carry reduced voting rights and grant no say on the company's charitable giving, cost $2,065 apiece. Mimicking Buffett...
...irony, not lost on observers from Wall Street to Washington, is that if the Bells' rivals stay in the business long enough and persuade wary capital markets to finance their separate networks, the Bells' distress could grow worse. Instead of getting paid a nominal amount by rivals who piggyback on their networks, the Bells would be getting almost nothing from customers they lose. Lawrence Babbio, president of Verizon, insists, "I'd rather take that risk [than see the situation persist]. It's a trade I'd make any day of the week." But Babbio knows it's not likely that...
...faculty, made the HUDS workers’ union “much stronger than it has been in the past.” A coalition with the union that represents Harvard’s custodians was mutually empowering for the unions, creating what Childs called a “piggyback effect...