QUES: Matsushita provided a cash infusion, but the clash of cultures was too great to overcome, and five years later Matsushita sold an 80% stake in MCA/Universal to Canadian drinks distributor Seagram for $5.7 billion. Seagram sold off its stake in DuPont to fund this expansion into the entertainment industry. Hoping to build an entertainment empire around Universal, Seagram bought PolyGram in 1999 and other entertainment properties, but the fluctuating profits characteristic of Hollywood were no substitute for the reliable income stream gained from the previously held shares in DuPont.

How much did Seagram pay to buy a large share of MCA/Universal?
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ANS: $5.7 billion
QUES: As one of the earliest centers of book-printing in Europe (see above: History), Strasbourg for a long time held a large number of incunabuladocuments printed before 1500in her library as one of her most precious heritages. After the total destruction of this institution in 1870, however, a new collection had to be reassembled from scratch. Today, Strasbourg's different public and institutional libraries again display a sizable total number of incunabula, distributed as follows: Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire, ca. 2 098 Mediatheque de la ville et de la communaute urbaine de Strasbourg, 394 Bibliotheque du Grand Seminaire, 238 Mediatheque protestante, 94 and Bibliotheque alsatique du Credit Mutuel, 5.

In what year had the previous library been built?
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ANS: unanswerable
QUES: It is fairly clear that predators tend to lower the survival and fecundity of their prey, but on a higher level of organization, populations of predator and prey species also interact. It is obvious that predators depend on prey for survival, and this is reflected in predator populations being affected by changes in prey populations. It is not so obvious, however, that predators affect prey populations. Eating a prey organism may simply make room for another if the prey population is approaching its carrying capacity.

What do different species of predators do when they encounter each other?
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unanswerable