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The initiating events of development of Dictyostelium include sensing starvation and cell density, which in turn result in the dispersed cells acquiring the ability to aggregate.
If the first possibility were correct, that would be good news for the southern credentials of George Bush Sr., since (as C-Span's Brian Lamb observed in the Wall Street Journal piece quoted in Chatterbox's earlier item) the smirk was clearly passed from father to son (acquiring some exaggeration in the process).
In a friendly takeover, the management teams of the acquiring and target companies negotiate the terms of the deal--covering issues such as how shares in the new company will be divided--and then both companies' boards of directors and shareholders approve it.
Applicable regulations include both general rules for procurement, the FAR, and the FIRMR regulations written by GSA specifically for acquiring federal information processing resources.
According to the paper, the government wants Lockheed to divest all of Northrop's defense electronics programs, which may be a deal-breaker, since acquiring them was one of the merger's prime motivations.