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Mostly, though, he continues to fret about Intel's future. The firm faces dozens of challenges--from cheap PCs to antitrust investigations--and Grove is engaged in the meta-movements of the technology world more deeply than ever. Says David Wu, an analyst at ABN AMRO Chicago: "I used to have a lot of problems with Intel, but every time I asked them a question, they had already thought about...
...South America and Asia--is turning cozy, inefficient state-owned monopolies into telephone free-for-alls. The second trend is technology, which has dissolved borders and allowed telecommunications companies to branch into cable television and information services. "The logic is simple," says James Ross, a telecommunications analyst for the ABN AMRO Hoare Govett brokerage firm in London. "In the end, the industry is going to be dominated by a small number of large players, and this makes it more likely that BT/MCI will be one of them...
...biggest marriage on the Continent took place in April with the joining of two longtime Dutch rivals, Algemene Bank Nederland (ABN) and Amsterdam- Rotterdam Bank (Amro). The pair forms Europe's sixth largest bank and the 19th biggest in the world, with combined assets of $184 billion and 55,700 employees. "A merger is necessary to operate worldwide and in the Netherlands," says Roelof Nelissen, Amro's chairman...
Roldós avoided ruffling Ecuador's armed forces, proclaiming that he held them in "great respect." But he also decried the "vile assassination" of Abnón Calderón Muñoz, leader of the gadfly Radical Front Party, who was shot last fall in Roldós' home town of Quayaquil. Calderón's family has brought suit charging that ex-Interior Minister Bolivar Jarrin Cahueñas was involved in the killing...
...secrecy vanished when a fortnight ago a sign went up on the toughest part of Route 19; WELCOME FIRST AIR CAV, it said; PASS SECURED COURTESY A CO 2ND BN ABN 502ND. The "First Cav" is the U.S. 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) Division, and it calls itself the "First Team"-the proud boast of a unit lineage that extends back through Korea and the Philippines to General Custer. Last week, by helilift direct from the U.S.S. Boxer and by road convoy from Qui Nhon, the First Team arrived in full force along Route...