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...world's biggest grower of GM crops, wants to be able to export its GM food. Green groups and some European officials charge America with deliberately sending GM maize to Southern Africa to force a showdown, while American officials believe the E.U. exploited Zambian concerns to bolster its own anti-GM views. "I don't think there are any particular heroes or villains in this whole thing," says former Zambian Agriculture Minister Guy Scott. "It's just a balls-up." Faced with a massive food shortage, the Zambian government was at first happy to take GM food. "If Americans...
...Wiemer, an analyst at Sal. Oppenheim in Zurich. "They are trying to work out the legacies of the past." Those legacies? Badly timed investments and shortsighted management. Five years and 21 billion euros in acquisitions ago, Credit Suisse's then-CEO, Lukas Mühlemann, plotted a course to bolster the firm's insurance business and expand its investment banking side - a "bancassurance" strategy that left Credit Suisse heavily exposed to market vagaries. In 1997, Credit Suisse bought Winterthur for €.5 billion. Three years later, at the top of the cycle, it paid €1.5 billion for U.S. investment...
...fleet of 340 planes for strategic airlift; European allies own 11, and rental agreements on a further 25 are due to expire at the end of the year. Fixing the problem fell to Berlin, say NATO officials, in part because its capability needs to be bolstered: the Bundeswehr had to rent Ukrainian Antonovs to get cargo to Afghanistan last spring, and the Schröder government, pleading budget problems, has already reduced its order for the A400M from a promised 73 planes to just 40. NATO officials hope Berlin will pull together enough allies to commit to the long-term...
...market began--the period in May and June when major advertisers reserve the bulk of their commercial time for the upcoming TV season--the networks would be lucky to match the dismal results of 2001, when revenues fell a hefty 12.5% from the year before. All this seemed to bolster the doomsayers who have long predicted that network TV is an endangered species...
...details of these far-flung crimes unfolded, the fbi was quietly trying to bolster its evidence against the suspects in the other Washington-area shootings. Law-enforcement sources tell Time that the fbi is testing saliva used to seal a letter left at the murder scene outside a Ponderosa steak house in Virginia for a match with either man's dna. Meanwhile, more evidence is emerging of the lengths to which desperate authorities went in an effort to catch the snipers. At the height of the Beltway crisis, fbi sources tell Time, the bureau's elite hostage-rescue team secretly...