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...nervous breakdown or had simply been drinking in Kiev, they suggested. Others claimed he was being used by Boris Berezovsky, the London-based billionaire and bitter enemy of Putin who has been Rybkin's patron since the mid-'90s. "Rybkin is not just finished as a politician," said analyst Andronik Migranyan. "He is simply not a very bright man." Strategist Gleb Pavlovsky predicted he would garner a "big fat zero" in the elections. Others, however, thought Rybkin's story plausible. Russian and Western observers with knowledge of the way the Russian security services work suggested privately that drugs could have...
...over Europe." Few agreed - no-frills airlines Air Polonia and France's Axis Airways even inked deals to begin using the Belgian hub - but no one thinks the war is over. "All Ryanair's deals with government-owned airports will have to be revisited," says Chris Avery, airline analyst at J.P. Morgan. France may prove the primary battleground. Europe's largest low-cost carrier, Ryanair shuttles in and out of 16 publicly owned airports in the country, paying discount charges to the regional airports' authorities. The Commission says it is already looking into Ryanair's deal with the southwestern town...
...What CIA analysts imagined to be dispositive evidence of Saddam's nuclear ambitions turned out, in Kay's judgment, to be proof of plain, old-fashioned greed. For months the Administration claimed that finely machined aluminum tubes, imported with ever higher tolerances--that is, precision in their specifications--were part of a campaign to produce gas centrifuges for the production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel. But after examining the tubes and talking to the scientists who procured and used them, Kay became convinced that the increasing tolerances were to meet not technical requirements but financial ones. The ever changing tolerances...
Every new detail that emerges in the trial about Kozlowski's alleged excesses only reinforces Breen's reforming mission. Last month a former Tyco spokesman testified that Kozlowski used company funds to pay for a $20,000 background check on the fiance of a Merrill Lynch analyst who followed the company. And, of course, there was the birthday party in Sardinia for Kozlowski's wife, which prosecutors claim was partly paid for with Tyco funds and featured a cake in the shape of a woman with exploding breasts...
While Breen's overhaul is improving margins, Tyco is still "a little behind the curve," says Joel Levington, an analyst at Standard & Poor's. He notes that Tyco's recent gains in efficiency had been accomplished by most other industrial manufacturers several years earlier. Once Tyco catches up, it will have to find ways to drive organic growth--increasing revenue by adding customers and developing new products, rather than just finding one-off savings by streamlining business models. Healthcare has already started to do that, but Tyco's other business units have further to climb. Still, a sustained rebound...