Word: canals
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...repeat. Yet he must also be genuinely perplexed by his options. "My sense is that they would like to push forward with a European strategy, significantly reducing U.S. assets," says J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Harrington. It looks probable: Vivendi marked Houghton Mifflin publishers and the international arm of Canal Plus for disposal, while mulling the sale of Universal Entertainment. This would change Vivendi from an international power to a mid-sized European firm with more than half its revenues coming solely from France. But there are obstacles. Potential buyers like AOL Time Warner have their own money problems. And selling...
...reader can never become exasperated with a writer who refers to sex as "a pelvis-to-pelvic impaction" or "root and canal work"; who acts as his own randy Roget, gleefully riffing on synonyms for roundness of breast ("rotundity, globularity, orbicularity and globosity") or anthropomorphizing his favorite female body part as "pouting, bulging, arching, ballooning, gravity-defying, ... surging, quivering, heaving, swaying, intoxicating, tantalizing, bouncing, suffocating, yes, even overwhelming...
...Bangkok, hardly looks like a 21st-century getaway. The country's oldest resort rose to fame in the 1920s, a decade after British engineers punched a railway through deep jungle, eliminating the long elephant rides from Bangkok suffered by the royal family on their beach outings. (Commoners went by canal and oxcart.) For the ensuing half-century, Hua Hin was the place to sun and be seen by upscale Asians and resident expats. But the onset of group travel sent beachgoers to a succession of swank, new beach resorts, leaving Thais largely alone for the past few decades in their...
...million alliance to develop and build motors for their smaller cars. The venture could turn out 1 million engines annually. Spanking The Banks U.S. Senate investigators testified that Citicorp, the top U.S. bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase helped Enron hide more than $8.5 billion in debt. Canal Plus (Or Minus) In his first move to reduce Vivendi's ?19 billion debt, new CEO Jean-René Fourtou will separate Canal Plus into a new company and sell the rest of its pay-TV unit. INDICATORS A Family Affair Think your family reunions are stressful? John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications...
...PETERSBURG—The gray Audi slowly pulled up next to me and two friends as we walked along the Moika Canal. The driver’s side window buzzed down and the middle-aged man called out in Russian, “Girls, get in. Don’t you want to get out of the rain?” (Large drops had just started falling out of the sky.) Faced with our polite, “No thank-you’s,” the car crawled alongside us for another minute and then, with a shrug...