For so long, the big divisions of the British left were invisible.
It's obvious that this is the place to build the discipline … so that Harvard could be one of the universities, one of the rare universities, in the front rank of both of the two big divisions of biology, structure and history.
Hal Kahn, the chief executive of the biggest division of Federated Department Stores for the last decade, is retiring on Feb. 15, the company said yesterday.
If the deal is approved, Jefferies will begin a new life as the biggest division of Leucadia, a conglomerate that has little recognition outside Wall Street but has drawn the admiration of value investors.
First-half revenue in the biggest division of Cable and Wireless probably contracted about 5percentt in the six months that will end on Sept. 30, the company said, because of slumping prices for voice and data services.
Kieran Mahoney, a Republican consultant in New York who is working for another presidential prospect, former Gov. James S. Gilmore III of Virginia, said he had been unconvinced of a Giuliani run until recently, when the former mayor stepped up the pace of hiring a campaign staff and reports emerged that he had taken steps to sell the biggest division of his consulting business.
But it is a major victory for Illinois, which waged a months-long war of incentives with several Sun Belt cities and states eager to be home to the biggest division of the nation's largest retailer.
PAGE A39 A Rapper on Top of Def Jam Jay-Z, one of rap's biggest-selling arists, has agreed to become the president of Def Jam Recordings, the venerable hip-hop label that is one of the biggest divisions of Universal Music Group.
Some large divisions of big companies have been spun off as well, as Lucent did with Agere Systems and Avaya.
It is a rare instance of a Japanese firm selling a big division, and one of the only cases in which Japanese operations have been sold to a Chinese company, a sensitive matter in Japan.
