Word: swap
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...Communications Wait a minute -- didn't the feds break up Ma Bell already? In the latest, and biggest yet, deal to shake up the unsettled telecom industry, highly acquisitive SBC Communications announced it would buy Ameritech in a $62 billion stock swap. The combined entity would comprise three of the original seven Baby Bells with more than $40 billion in annual revenues, controlling some 57 million lines in 13 Western and Midwestern states. Only U.S. West now stands between SBC control of nearly three quarters of the U.S. Throw in telecom deregulation that should eventually allow local phone companies...
After an infield realignment--a swap of junior third baseman Peter Woodfork and Carey--and two straight games with no errors, Harvard is warming to its best baseball of the year, and at the most crucial point in the season...
Harvard also enjoyed its second consecutive error-free game, which included a defensive swap by Walsh in the infield. Junior third baseman Peter Woodfork, who had committed 10 errors and was fielding .865, switched to second while junior Hal Carey took over at the hot corner...
...before we hang all the dealmakers, consider the flip side. Last week financial-services giants Travelers Group and Citicorp agreed to the largest merger in history, a stock swap worth some $76 billion. It's a titanic marriage that will dwarf everything else in banking, brokerages, insurance, ATMs, cold calls, lollipops, hamburgers and chutzpah. It makes the size of the next biggest merger, the pending $42 billion deal between MCI and WorldCom announced last October, look cheesy...
...dying merchant--with what seems like one-handed CPR. Musa, the revived trader, is not particularly grateful. His first thought is to sign up the young Jewish healer for a traveling medicine show. Musa is worldliness made flesh, the sort of opportunist and schemer who if asked to swap his soul for profit would probably respond, "What's the catch?" By contrast, Crace's Messiah-in-training is a bit of a stick: an inept carpenter with a stuffy nose, a functional illiterate, the kind of cheerless guy who has to make camping out with snakes and scorpions even harder...