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...Streets - is a young, original talent who could hold his own against Eminem, with less obscenity. But for many, the U.K. music industry can't be deemed officially revived until it gets its groove back in the world's biggest market. Since the Beatles touched down at J.F.K. Airport in 1964, wave upon wave of British musicians have found global stardom via the U.S. But not lately; there are currently no British artists in the U.S. Billboard Top 50 singles chart. The Top 100 album chart features a more respectable four British acts - but the Rolling Stones, Elton John...
Transaction completed, Howe made it to the airport just in time to catch the flight to Bermuda...
InVision Technologies is so far the only company other than L-3 to win government contracts for airport scanners. InVision, based in Newark, Calif., will build about 625 C.T.-based machines. HiEnergy Technologies of Irvine, Calif., meanwhile, is at work on a new explosive-detection technology that some analysts believe could one day give L-3 a run for its money. "It's possible that new technology could render L-3's obsolete," says Christopher Tavares, an analyst for MetroTrading, a brokerage in Deerfield Beach, Fla. "To stay competitive, L-3 will have to continue to develop new product lines...
...General Dynamics, Raytheon and Northrup, all of which sell security systems. But they tend to hire smaller shops like L-3 to make components, so, as Lanza puts it, "we won't be competing with the gorillas." Last year L-3 was a subcontractor for Boeing on several airport-security systems, and it is now working with Lockheed to supply communications gear and systems engineering for the U.S. Coast Guard. Also, last year roughly two-thirds of L-3's 35% earnings growth came from acquisitions. But Lanza predicts that internal growth will account for a steadily increasing share...
...terrorist strike nearly nine years earlier. Between 1:28 and 3:35 p.m. on March 12, 1993, a group of terrorists and gangsters trained in Pakistani camps detonated 10 bombs across Bombay. Among the targets: the local stock exchange, crowded marketplaces, a double-decker bus, hotels, offices and the airport. The toll: 257 people killed or missing, 713 injured and a city of 14 million temporarily paralyzed with fear. The similarities to the attacks that would come later in the U.S. are one of the most striking aspects of S. Hussain Zaidi's account, Black Friday: the True Story...