Word: bins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prospect of such low prices has spawned even more consortiums eager to be top dogs in the satellite-Internet communications business. The most ambitious venture is Teledesic, founded in 1990 by deep-pocket investors including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (with a 13.7% stake), and cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, who is the chairman and co-chief executive. Motorola, after a frosty initial reaction to the project, dropped its own system, Celestri, and joined in with $750 million for a 26% stake. Once jeered as the most starry-eyed start-up ever, the $9 billion Teledesic project...
...nukes didn't scare off foreign investors, the mob outrage over the U.S. missile strike last month in nearby Afghanistan certainly did. Diplomats and executives from many Western companies fled Pakistan, fearing revenge attacks by supporters of Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, the intended target of the American raid. In the port city of Karachi, ethnic gangs armed with grenades and machine guns prowl neighborhoods hunting for enemies. Sectarian rivalry among Muslims has become so fierce that some clergymen post bodyguards at their mosques to guard against bomb throwers speeding by on motorcycles. In Karachi, kidnappings of clergymen have become...
...Owhali and Odeh have implicated bin Laden in the Kenya and Tanzania bombings, according to federal-court documents. The FBI says they were part of al-Qaida, an international terrorist organization that bin Laden heads, and had been trained at a camp in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors in New York are drafting a broader terrorism case against him that will include the East African bombings...
...White House, meanwhile, has ambitious plans for a larger military, diplomatic and covert war against bin Laden, senior officials tell TIME. The Treasury Department is looking at ways to block bin Laden's $300 million empire from financing his terror network. At future U.N. conferences and economic summits, Clinton will lobby foreign leaders to seize bin Laden assets found in their countries. Friendly foreign-intelligence services, acting on CIA tips, have begun rounding up bin Laden operatives in different parts of the world to harass his network. The agency has succeeded in breaking up a bin Laden terror cell operating...
Brave talk. The Administration has yet to prove it can deliver. Most of bin Laden's hidden finances have been impossible to find. Pentagon officials admit they're not flush with big fat targets in bin Laden's network, which is a collection of highly mobile terror cells with no central headquarters. Sending in commandos to snatch him in Afghanistan would be too bloody an operation, and the country's ruling Taliban is so far in no mood to turn him over...