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...Small is neither a scientist nor an academic. He spent 27 years at Citibank, and his last job was COO of Fannie Mae. He plays flamenco guitar and owns a world-class collection of Amazonian art, but he got the job because he knows how to raise money and crunch numbers. His mission was to put the world's largest museum complex on a sound financial footing...
...QUIET CREDIT CRUNCH...
...though the new building "will do a lot to alleviate the housing crunch," said Lazarro, "HPRE is thinking only about long term implications...
...growing pains as what started as three friends ballooned into a nation-wide business, but Tubes relies upon the audience members to entertain themselves a bit too heavily. Opening packages of Twinkies with a saw, covering a man’s head with Cap’n Crunch and painting a canvas by slapping a paint-smeared human body into it make the performance seem too like a frat party with a $53 cover charge...
Nobody knows the vicissitudes of technology better than Lucent, which had to negotiate a $6.5 billion loan package last month to avoid a cash crunch. Lucent was first a beneficiary and then a victim of the race to wire the U.S. with the speed-of-light data pipes known as broadband. And now it has company in its misery, as broadband carnage has spread from phone companies like AT&T and WorldCom to fiber makers like Corning to optical-systems builders like Nortel Networks to components makers like JDS Uniphase and networking companies like Cisco Systems...