Rectangular Callout: 17-Mar-04 Shareholders Approve the $47 Billion Merger of Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial [1-2]. The New Bank Will Have Almost $1 Trillion in Assets [3]. Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial Agree to Pay $375 Million and $140 Million, Respectively,  in Disgorgement and Penalties, to Settle SEC Charges [4-5]. Post-Merger Job Cuts Are Reportedly Estimated at 13,000 [6]. Rectangular Callout: 16-Mar-04 Documents Purport to Corroborate Banks Have Helped Companies, including Enron and WorldCom, Conceal their Financial Problems, Resulting in Investors Losing Billions of Dollars. The Role of Major Banks in Corporate Scandals to Be Decided by the Federal Court. [1] Rectangular Callout: 15-Mar-04 European Regulators Find Microsoft Guilty of Antitrust Violations [1]. Rectangular Callout: 14-Mar-04 2nd Session of the National People's Congress: China's Parliament Approves Constitutional Changes to Guarantee Private Property and Human Rights [1-6]. The Guarantee Applies Only to "Legally Obtained Private Property" [1-3,5]. Rectangular Callout: 15-Mar-04 Nortel Networks Corporation Places Its Incumbent Chief Financial Officer and Its Incumbent Controller on Paid leave of Absence Pending an Independent Review of Its Financial Results [1]. Nortel Stock Plummets Nearly 18.7%. or CDN$6.8 Billion [3]. Text Box: Case Study: Nortel Networks -- Intellectual Correlation Flow Visualizer Helps You Navigate Through Public Relations Turbulence MI2 Allows You to Detect, Track, and Characterize Turbulent Flows in People's State of Mind. Turbulent Correlation Flows Impact Corporate and Government Communications, Including Advertisements, Customer Relations, and Public Relations. GOOD and BAD Correlations with Slavery% in March 2004 Anticipated and Characterized Major Economic and Commercial Events: • Constitutional Changes in China Regarding Private Property. • Independent Financial Review at Nortel Networks Corporation. • Microsoft Antitrust Violations Ruling in Europe. • Investigation of the Role of Major Banks in Corporate Scandals. • Merger of Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial.    
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