Regardless of the drama that may play out in the Journal's newsroom after the News Corp. buyout, in terms of the actual running of the business, Rupert Murdoch may help Dow Jones keep on keeping on.
With the proposed purchase of KeySpan Corp. by London-based National Grid moving ahead, another local utility may make an equally attractive long-term buyout candidate: the Long Island Power Authority itself.
Russia lost its western satellites almost two decades ago, and Europe, while appearing to be bullied by Russia's oil-dependent diplomacy, is staging a long-term buyout of Russia, whose economy remains roughly the size of France's.
The term "buyout" refers to the fact that these games allow skipping the auction by paying a price.
Under Newspaper Guild terms, buyouts offer participants two weeks' salary for each year they are employed by the paper.
The terms of buyout, termination clauses and extensions can also differ widely for men's and women's coaches, even at the same university.
These are really the saddest decisions of all because they know they could have taken a buyout before on better terms".
This is the first time Merrill has had a formal voluntary buyout program and its terms indicate how eager it is to quickly reduce the size of its staff.
The Carlyle Group is second in terms of buyout participants, with $26.8 billion in two deals, or a 16.9% share.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, founded in 1976, has made "leveraged buyout" a well-known term of art.
