The bosses of the big paper companies explain the merger wave with visionary strategic statements.
Other mergers and selective disposals of non-core units have helped big paper firms to reshape their operations.
MediaNews has a genius for bunching small suburban papers around metro areas, skimming off advertising revenue that would otherwise have gone to the big paper in the city.
Using a combination of junk bond debt and bank financing, Singleton and his 87-year-old partner, Richard Scudder, are masters at bunching smallish suburban and hick-town papers around metro areas and skimming off advertising revenue that would otherwise go to the big paper in the city.
One bitter dispute involves Argentina's environmental objections to a big new paper mill on Uruguay's bank of the river that divides them.
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This leaves only one option for any big city paper that wishes to survive: It must cut editorial costs to something that can be supported by the revenues that they can, in fact, garner.
Apparently, as often happens, no one thought putting up this stuff for the world to see, theoretically, would result in them seeing it, in practice, thus result in a big-paper story that exposes many of the ills the people in town would rather not talk about with outsiders.
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In my house, every night at dinner we have a big piece of paper that we put on our dining room table as our tablecloth and we doodle.
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Our major banks must refinance at year-end big traunches of debenture paper.
Like many of his fellow tycoons, Mr Tanti has seen a big chunk of his paper fortune blown away in recent weeks on a storm-tossed stockmarket.
Cincinnati cardiologist Evan Stein, one of the coauthors of the ENHANCE paper and a big proponent of the too-thin argument, reiterated it in an editorial that appears alongside SANDS in the cardiology journal.
When housing was booming, many investors saw mortgage prepayments, and the need to reinvest in lower-yielding paper, as the big risk.
How will the paper fare in the Big Apple's kiosks and dispensers?
On January 13th, for instance, two big companies, Intel and International Paper, announced much better results than the markets had been expecting.
Almost all big Indonesian companies are, on paper, bankrupt.
And on the other side of the ledger, as Rosanne Altshuler, Katie Lim, and I showed in a 2010 paper, tax increases big enough to tame fiscal deficits by themselves are probably both politically infeasible and economically unwise.
There were many great ideas, ideas as simple as eliminating paper pay stubs and as big as rethinking return to work incentives for those on disability.
Since March 2009, those factors have both been big tailwinds for below-investment grade paper, helping drive both the JNK and HYG 50% higher in price over the past year and a half.
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Ginkgo, inspired by the do-it-yourself ethos of Squid Labs' Saul Griffith, will sell these standardized genetic parts dried onto sheets of paper or in vials to big companies that want to make new drugs, plastics and petroleum replacements.
Regardless of how good it looks on paper, a state or big-city agency won't be willing to take a chance on a vehicle with no track record, said Detective Mary Wheat, spokesperson for the Portland, Oregon, police department.
Investec's involvement is seen as significant because Virgin Mobile is preparing a big marketing push in South Africa, the paper said.
If you really must keep one credit card in your wallet, wrap a piece of red paper around it and write in big, bold letters EMERGENCY.
His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.
The paper found, unsurprisingly, that big exemptions made it harder for firms to borrow: after controlling for other variables, companies in states with unlimited exemptions were roughly 30% more likely to be denied credit than firms in the states with low exemptions.
It's the leader in paper made from eucalyptus pulp, with big exports to emerging markets.
Check out "big box" retailers like Costco for food and paper supplies.
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