The Conglomerate Way to Growth

the unwieldy beast with two fins.

Drop by drop, the water can conglomerate into a lake.

The company plans to merge its European operations, including the UK business, with those of ThyssenKrupp, the German conglomerate.

Koushik Chatterjee, executive director of Tata Steel Europe, said the Indian conglomerate wants to make its steel business more sustainable.

Narrator Computers, once the unwieldy tools of accountants and other geeks, escaped the backrooms to enter the media fracas.

Many participants indicated that they did not favour a system of periodic reports, which they considered to be too unwieldy.

rendered unwieldy through the ad hoc creation of teams and units in response to new programmatic mandates and operational concerns.

A failure to act now will only result in exacerbating a situation that most States already consider to be unwieldy.

Within Africa, the South African conglomerate Eskom has contracted to run the Tanzania Electric Supply Company and the main power station in Zimbabwe.

Charoen Pokphand, a domestic conglomerate that formerly focused on agribusiness, has expanded its business internationally with investments to such countries as China and Indonesia.

Saha Union Group, a conglomerate of 58 companies focusing on textile products, and Mitrphol Sugar, which deals in sugar products, have activities in China.

At a Clinton rally last week in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate is based there, challenged Trump to meet and exchange tax returns.

To many, Thai Myanmar relations are too cozy. Critics accuse Thaksin of conflicts of interest, as his family owned telecommunications conglomerate holds sizeable investments in Myanmar.

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Although the process may seem initially unwieldy and time consuming, participation by the poor is not only necessary to good governance but also to the effectiveness of the poverty reduction strategy papers.

It proposes to enlarge the Council's membership in both the permanent and non permanent categories so that it is large enough but not too unwieldy to be representative of the 191 Member nations.

The directors of the conglomerate were said to be connected with former members of Battalion 32, which had fought in Angola under the name of Buffalo Battalion, and erstwhile members of racist and extreme right wing paramilitary organizations in South Africa.

In time, the cartographers became even more ambitious they drew a map that was an exact, one to one replica of the whole empire. As Borges wryly notes, subsequent generations could find no practical use for such an unwieldy map.

Instead of choosing between a body that was representative but too large and unwieldy to deal with emerging security situations, or one that was efficient at the expense of representativeness, they created a system with multiple bodies with different roles.

At the same time, public spending acts as a brake on overall spending, and prevents the rapid cost escalation to which America s private insurance companies contribute. The US spends 1 of its GDP annually simply to administer its complex, unwieldy insurance system.

The multilateral dialogue in which the States parties were engaged was, much like democracy, slow, unwieldy and at times frustrating, but it was far superior to any other approach in terms of the prospect of achieving equitable and therefore durable security solutions.

50. As indicated in the present report, the United Nations health insurance programme, although providing a useful service to its participants, has become unwieldy and complicated with the growth in the number of plans involved and the differences that exist between those plans.

Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub Saharan Africa We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the power and availability of an unwieldy, expensive diagnostic lab by miniaturizing it to the size of a chip.

And it must do so by creating new, transparent institutions and processes, which would limit adverse political reaction. Over the medium term, it must take an axe to the thicket of unwieldy regulations that make businesses so dependent on an agile and cooperative bureaucracy.

At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home based health care for all.

A board of 17 people, one from each eurozone economy, would be unwieldy, and unlikely to win the support of the eurozone s principal creditor countries. At the same time, a board dominated by the creditor economies would be unlikely to win the backing of the debtor countries.

The impression has sought to be created that the Conference on Disarmament is an unwieldy and unworkable body which cannot reach agreement on any issue of substance and, therefore, other forums are perhaps more suited for serious work than this, the single multilateral negotiating body on disarmament.

As it stands, the Silk Road Fund is unilateral, placing it in the same category as the China Development Bank and the state owned investment conglomerate CITIC. But the Chinese authorities have said that it is open for others to join, though that seems unlikely, given the scale of the Chinese commitment.

Employing many of the same development strategies including export oriented policies and a conglomerate dominated industrial system South Korea has been catching up with Japan for four decades. Its per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity), just one fifth of Japan s in 1970, amounts to almost 95 of Japan s today.

One disappointing probability is that global efforts to fashion new arrangements to promote trade, slow the pace of climate change, or regulate cyberspace are likely to come to naught. Large scale multilateralism, in which most of the world s 193 United Nations recognized countries meet to negotiate accords, has become too unwieldy.

The KFTC's decision acknowledged that a conglomerate merger can have anti competitive effects on the market and can be evaluated in order to impose ex ante and ex post monitoring measures at the same time, so that the adverse effect of competition restriction can be corrected appropriately while the positive effect of enhanced efficiency can be maximized.

After deliberating on Hite Brewery Co.'s bid for Jinro Ltd., the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) decided in July 2005 that it would impose corrective measures in the event of Hite's formal notification of the takeover on the ground that the conglomerate merger between the Republic of Korea's largest beer maker and its top soju producer might substantially harm competition.

Ms. Rachel Brett of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva in her introductory remarks, pointed out that the conglomerate of special procedures was not yet a system and that the key question was how to move from a collection of individual mandates created sui generis and on an ad hoc basis to a cohesive system, without losing the benefit of individuality.

However, experience has shown that the procedure for adding new ODS to the lists of controlled substances is extremely long and unwieldy, often taking longer than 12 years for 80 per cent of the Parties to ratify, with the result that the Protocol's overall goal of protecting the ozone layer is put at risk and unnecessarily delayed as a result of inadequate procedures.

He suggested a return to the status quo ante. 67. Mr. RIDER (New Zealand) noted that the medium term plan for 1998 2001 had given the Fourth Committee a clear, detailed and integrated mandate from the General Assembly. In contrast, the fragmentation effect of the move of the decolonization team seemed unwieldy and unlikely to yield any real gain in efficiency.

NEW YORK For years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has wielded Europe s dependence on his country s natural gas as a foreign policy weapon, without fear of the European Union calling his bluff until now. With the EU launching an antitrust case against the state controlled gas conglomerate Gazprom, Europe has sent a clear signal that Putin s brutishness is no longer as intimidating as it once was.

Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar Adua, who took power in June 2007, following controversial elections, is to transform the country into one of the world s 20 largest economies by 2020. Yar Adua and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are struggling to stamp their authority on an unwieldy and restive country of 140 million people, and the government views rapid growth as a means to achieving that aim.

If Europe s political center is widely perceived to be arbitrary and overweening, its authority will be rejected and resisted. While adopting a new treaty may look like an unwieldy process, ill suited to managing a fast moving modern financial crisis, it is the only way to generate legitimacy for the institutions that are needed to address that crisis in particular to provide reassurance that transfers will not be indefinite and unlimited.