Word: analysts
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...start, current management has got to go. For too long it has truckled to power, spending its day scurrying down to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for orders. If it's not Cheney treating George Tenet as a court jester, it's some analyst badgered until he changes his assessment. What I'm trying to say is that it's not the CIA that is broken, it's Washington - which means the quick fix is to build a firewall between a hopelessly partisan Washington and the CIA. And it wouldn't cost much...
...Investors think that Commerzbank did not get as good a deal as Allianz," said Konrad Becker, a financial industry analyst at Merck Finck...
...safeguarded its core commercial banks from foreign raiders, the Postbank, a large retail bank with no corporate lending or investment banking activities, could end up in foreign hands. "Postbank is the last chance for anyone who wants get into the German commercial banking market," said Becker, the Merck Finck analyst...
...That's certainly true of the CIA analyst played by John Malkovich. Osborne Cox: his very name is steeped in two denominations of old money. After decades at the Agency, he has perfected the look and the attitude of a career spook. He wears a smart dark suit and that inevitable flourish of the house eccentric, a bow tie. Osborne's Olympian contempt for his superiors, his overcareful pronunciation of French words ("mem-wah"), the modest shock value of a Princeton man spicing every sentence with the f-word - all these mark him as hailing from that generation and class...
...million) and the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas ($80 million) were, if not home runs, all solid doubles built on female audiences apparently dying to leave the house. "The lesson was you don't need guys to make money on a movie," says Steve Mason, box-office analyst at FantasyMoguls.com. "You can make movies that are a little nichier and still do remarkably well." Animated films Wall-E ($216 million) and Kung Fu Panda ($212 million), meanwhile, served the quality-starved family audience...