Word: businessman
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...like heresy. And the prospect isn't happier now that the relatively healthy Orange would have to be sold in a very sick market. But as Michel Bon could tell the next CEO, in Europe's current telecom environment, tough choices are about the only ones left. SPACE The Businessman in the moon it's one great leap for businessman-kind: the U.S. government has given TransOrbital permission to launch the first commercial moon landing, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, in 2003. Space is big business, with satellites generating more than $80 billion last year. But is there really...
Cleere lost his father, James, a businessman from Iowa who happened to be in New York for a meeting on the morning of Sept...
...harder for the President to argue that we are at war when so little is asked of anyone but the soldiers doing the fighting. "The fact that the country quickly returned to normal life is something I do not quite understand," says Duane Jackson, a retired Wisconsin businessman. "Perhaps because no one is having to make any direct sacrifices like we did in World War II. We fight a phantom war, against an unseen enemy, with no direct battle lines. Where is the war?" During the Civil War, he notes, more than "600,000 lives were lost...
There is a deeper worry within the party too: that after 20 months in office, Bush relies too heavily on moral certainty to make decisions overseas and not enough on the same kind of forceful, black-and-white distinctions when making decisions at home. Bush's experience as a businessman should give him a persuasive voice on economic problems, but thus far it hasn't. Yet overseas, where Bush's experience is more limited and his advisers are divided, he is running greater risks and relying on a moral code that almost everyone believes will be difficult to maintain...
...less than its IPO price--the company is getting poor marks. "When I went public, I had a great business," Lauren says. "I don't think the company has gone backward." Global expansion, he hopes, will prove to Wall Street that he's not just a designer but a businessman...