The company's strategy seems simple: offer consumers a banquet of options missing from the rivals, on the assumption that more is clearly better.
Reviewers and rival historians regularly make the assumption that because he writes about the upper classes, he is a snobbish supporter of the system he chronicles.
Even when model discrimination is possible, it can be expected to be difficult as the starting assumption is that the rival models both describe all available data well.
There's something patronising in the assumption that we can easily rival the wonders of a lost cultural world.
He was also ribbing his Republican rival, whose campaign is based on the assumption that everyone is fed up with "the Clinton-Gore era".
In August LifePoint Hospitals announced plans to acquire rival Province Healthcare for $1.7 billion in cash, stock and assumption of debt.
The Enron Corporation agreed to be acquired by rival Dynegy for about $9 billion in stock and the assumption of $13 billion in debt.
D2 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Enron Agrees to Takeover Enron, the world's largest energy trading company, agreed to be acquired by a rival, Dynegy, for about $9 billion in stock and the assumption of $13 billion in debt.
Enron was teetering close to insolvency before Dynegy, a smaller cross-town rival, agreed to acquire it for $9 billion plus the assumption of $13 billion in debt, with additional financing from ChevronTexaco, a major Dynegy shareholder.
Schneider, which bought Legrand, a rival, last year for 5.4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) plus the assumption of 1.3 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of debt, was forced to sell the company, which makes electrical switches, after the European Union blocked the deal.
With its stock plunging and its finances in doubt, the world's largest energy trader, the Enron Corporation, agreed to be acquired yesterday by the rival Dynegy Inc. for about $9 billion in stock and the assumption of $13 billion in debt.
