In her essay‚ Triumph of the Yell‚ written in 1994‚ Deborah Tannen details the truths about public discourse in a well organized and factual manner. She makes a forceful claim that public discourse has degenerated into verbal fist-fights which are not effective in problem solving. She exemplifies her statements with facts and personal experiences. She also applies the universal intellectual standards of clarity‚ depth‚ accuracy‚ logic and fairness. With this thought provoking essay‚ Tannen exposes
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Cell Yell In this generation‚ people tend to speak their mind regardless of their surroundings. Thinking back to a few years ago‚ everything was private. Not too many people were broadcasting personal business in public settings. Nowadays when using public transportation services‚ it’s rather annoying to hear the next person’s conversation. What ever happen to keeping your conversation private? Privacy plays an important role in my life. Everything isn’t for everyone to hear‚ see‚ or understand
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Case Study Preparation Questions Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group Shiyu Liu 1. Include a paragraph to summarize the case. A group of private equity investors – Apax Partner and Hick Muse are two private equity firms that are interested in buying the Yell Group. Yell Group comprises of two businesses that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Yellow Pages is a classified directory business in the UK while Yellow Book is an independent directory business
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Bidding on the Yell Group 1. Introduction Yell Group consists of two businesses that are operating across countries. Yellow Page is a classified directory business in the UK‚ while Yellow Book is an independent directory business in the USA. These businesses are currently owned by British Telecom which is under pressure to reduce its heavy debt load and had been wavering for months about the future of these two Yellow Pages divisions. Apax Partner and Hick Muse are two private equity firms
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Memo To: Apax Partners and Hicks‚ Muse‚ Tate & Furst From: Subject: Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group Date: April 9‚ 2014 Yell Group‚ a holding company created by British Telecom (BT)‚ has two business divisions located in two different countries: Yellow Pages business in the U.K. and Yellow Book business in the U.S. Recently‚ BT is under pressure to reduce heavy debt load through outright sale of directories
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information obtained from various sources and Yell’s website‚ it shown that Yell has grown from the only one classified directory company in Brighton‚ UK in 1966 to be a leading international company with size of 5‚300 employees which provide an useful guidance and information for their customer in the classified advertising market in the United Kingdom‚ the United States‚ Spain‚ Chile‚ Peru and Argentina at this time. Yell create and receive their earnings by giving an opportunity for buyers to be
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Executive summary 2 PART 1: Valuation of the Yell Group 3 LBO Potential 3 Financial structure 3 Ownership structure 4 Potential cultural differences 4 Valuation 4 PART 2 : Readings 10 Bond prices and takeovers 10 Abnormal Bond Returns 10 Impact on bond returns of different legal standards in case of cross-border acquisitions 11 Sources of financing takeovers 11 References 14 Executive summary The Yell group is consists of BT Yellow Book Yellow Pages USA and
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the poet makes vivid his feelings of loss in the poem. A.C Swinburne intelligently directs the readers of his poem towards his own thoughts by naming his piece ‘From The Triumph of Time’. The poet effectively creates a contrast within two ideas; Time itself triumphing by taking away a loved one‚ or Swinburne’s own triumph of being capable of healing his grief and wounds throughout the passing of time. Making unrequited love and the separation of two souls perfect for each other two very important
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“Triumph of the Will”’s Achievements and Effects The cinematography masterpiece created by Leni Riefenstahl was successful as propaganda not only because it was in the form of a film‚ which could easily spread to the masses and play to their emotions‚ but due to Riefenstahl’s superb cinematography. This cinematographic prowess enabled the film to successfully imprint ideas which would not have reached the viewers had it been filmed differently. Riefenstahl manipulated the camera cuts and the light
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Triumph of the city Triumph of the city‚ by Edward L. Glaeser‚ was published in the United States by the Penguin Group in February 2012. In this book‚ the author makes clear points how cities have not only survived but thrived; Glaeser’s premise is that human beings are best when they are close together‚ that cities provide the lifestyle that brings humans closer together. In order to solve all the problems and to have a better future‚ he encourages people to live in cities together so that we can
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