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...Professor of Medieval Studies and Professor of Philosophy University of Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor meri's cottages princes' palaces. Merchant of Venice 1.2 These words make it clear that if Portia were...

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...a time of many mergers the Company sought profit stabilization through some corporate relationship If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...Churches, and poor men's cottages princes palaces. (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1600)) In the thriving business environment of the mid-1980s...