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With all the turmoil in the Middle East, few took much notice when Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris signed a deal last December involving a firm from a neighboring country. This was no routine transaction. Sawiris, CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, in Cairo, purchased 9.9% of Partner Telecommunications Co. Ltd., in Tel Aviv, considered to be the biggest investment, valued at $150 million, ever made in the Jewish state by an investor from an Arab country. Sawiris expected the rebukes he received from some fellow Arabs for doing business with Israelis even as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still rages...
...threaten the very survival of the Mediterranean bluefin. The volume of tuna caught in the Mediterranean has soared in just a few years. Indeed, it tripled between the summer of 2002 and late last year, according to a report last November by Advanced Tuna Ranching Technologies (ATRT), a consultancy firm in Madrid. Why? Blame the worldwide taste for sushi. European Union fishing subsidies haven't helped, either - they enable fishermen to buy new boat engines, the better to compete against the high-tech fleets that have set up in the Mediterranean. Many Spanish and French fishing companies have used...
These days a growing number of proprietors are adding one-of-a-kind indigenous attractions to the deck. "Now that every plush hotel has the same wonderful beds and beautiful marble, luxury resorts have to create unique personalities," says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing, a firm that tracks affluent consumers' spending habits...
...trying to rationalize its existence," says Drew Neisser, CEO of Renegade Marketing Group, a new media advertising firm in New York City. "If it weren't for IM-ing and inertia, it would probably be in even deeper trouble." The question facing AOL, he says, is whether the Web needs another general aggregator or whether the market is moving toward more specialized sites like YouTube and MySpace...
...know the term crazy like a fox." Towery noted that McKinney has not been running ads in her campaign: "She knows this go-round that if she stays quiet, keeps to herself, that she's likely to get a pass." One indication of MicKinney's chances: Towery's firm is doing no polling on the race - which it would likely do, he said, if "we thought that there was any chance of an upset...