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Meanwhile, the entire analyst community is under siege, essentially charged with fueling the irrational ascent of worthless stock via questionable buy recommendations that enriched analysts and their firms. Internet pinups Meeker at Morgan Stanley and Henry Blodget at Merrill Lynch each earned about $15 million for their bullishness in 1999--while those who listened paid dearly. Now we demand accountability...
...approach to the conflict. But every pundit and newspaper hawker in Skopje had for months predicted a rebel attempt on Aracinovo. "How much would it have taken to secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo in order to persuade a reluctant parliament to accept his call for the declaration of a "state of war" - a charge the Georgievski vehemently denies...
...indicted men are mostly Saudi members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrilla movement, and the indictment alleges that unnamed Iranian officials "inspired, supported and supervised" the accused men in their surveillance activities preceding the attack. And it doesn't take an intelligence analyst to figure out that an organization "supported and supervised" by Iran would not attack the world's most powerful military in a traditionally hostile neighboring country unless someone pretty powerful in Tehran had signed off on the strike. And although outgoing FBI director Louis Freeh had accused the Clinton Administration of soft-pedaling on the case...
With 30,000 suppliers still unsigned by VCE and with worldwide surplus-chip inventories estimated to be worth $30 billion, the company seems poised to take even greater advantage of the network effect. "The potential is huge," says John McCarthy, an e-business analyst for Forrester Research. Indeed, projections that the semiconductor business will shrink 17% this year seem to be a boon...
...million, stay ahead of $75 billion Sony and $40 billion Matsushita? For starters, the company carved out its niche early by mastering the difficult art of making its product easy to use. "Avid is the most intuitive editing environment on the market," says Gene Munster, an analyst at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Tim Squyres, film editor for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, says, "Avid's software has gone through many revisions of being designed to accommodate editors...