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...misconduct--they sounded bitter and not a little hypocritical. In their scolding of the big-grinned Arnold, they seemed as uptight as the far right and were rejected by the post-Clinton electorate. So Arnold snuck through the left-right paradigm with the dexterity of a well-honed deltoid flex...
...large European bank to replace its crazy quilt of back-office software with his product. An executive gave him an unusual brush-off, telling him the bank's system was so complex that only God could figure it out. Hukku, the chairman and managing director of Bombay-based i-flex solutions, made a deft save. "Sir, we are Indians," he said. "We are very religious, and very close to God." Hukku won the business. Now he's trying to pull off another miracle: making his company the first Indian software producer to establish itself as a global brand...
India exports $9.5 billion in code annually--but almost all of it is written under contract for such mammoth outsiders as Microsoft. Hukku, 45, wants to change that. I-flex, which began as a separate business in 1988, sells a range of products under its Flexcube label that help financial-services companies manage banking, credit-card and other transactions. It's a competitive field, dominated by firms like Temenos and Misys, but i-flex has customers, including the American Stock Exchange, in more than 90 countries. With fiscal 2003 revenue of $134 million and 2,370 employees, Hukku's company...
...exotic dancer who fights crime. Debuting the same night are Gary the Rat, with Kelsey Grammer as the voice of a lawyer who turns into a rodent, and a revival of the scatological toon Ren & Stimpy. Later Spike will roll out the celebrity-car show Ride with Funkmaster Flex, reality series with names like Most Extreme Elimination Challenge and a smattering of health and business news...
Meanwhile, the Allston planning process, supposed to be both widely consultative and highly centralized, has had to flex to accommodate schools’ desire to conduct their own studies of Allston...