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...redistributing the savings into new technologies. It also figures it could save $300 million in 2003 on cost synergies, which amounts to 2% of the $15 billion a year it shells out for materials, services and logistics."You could probably manage that just by benchmarking," says Commerzbank analyst Peter Dupont. "If the new company finds that Arbed ships a provider's stuff for one price and Usinor for another, and there's no good reason for the difference, then the pressure will be high...
...last year - for the first time in its history - hired a businessman, not an educator, to run the company. And looking to seize a large chunk of the pre-college testing market, it launched a for-profit subsidiary, ETS K-12 Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative we have." His golden ticket may be ETS's new "e-rater," a nifty tool that...
...1990s. European environmentalists and consumer-advocacy groups were the first to launch major protests that have since spread worldwide. Environmentalists in India have filed suit against Monsanto to prevent it from testing genetically modified cotton. In the Philippines, farmers have demonstrated against seed giants Monsanto and Dupont's field tests of Bt corn. And activists there point to Miracle Rice?a product of the Green Revolution in the '60s?as a cautionary lesson. Its wholesale adoption in Southeast Asia led to a rice monoculture, making crops more vulnerable to insect pests and disease, and more dependent on pesticides...
...match, which was played in MIT's well-worn and poorly lit DuPont Gymnasium, was Harvard's first experience with the new rules approved by the NCAA for this volleyball season. The most noticeable change is the scoring format, which changed from 15-point games with points only coming off service to 30-point games with rally-point scoring...
...match, which was played in MIT's well-worn and poorly lit DuPont Gymnasium, was Harvard's first experience with the new rules approved by the NCAA for this volleyball season. The most noticeable change is the scoring format, which changed from 15-point games with points only coming off service to 30-point games with rally-point scoring...