Word: gents
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...Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...
Christopher Gent VODAFONE CEO 53, British www.vodafone.com...
While much of the debt-burdened telecom industry spent 2001 selling off properties, Gent upped his stakes in Japan's J-Phone and Spain's Airtel. Clearly he wants to maintain Vodafone's position as the world's largest mobile company...
...Last year he succeeded in his $190 billion hostile bid for Germany's Mannesmann, a hat trick that netted him better global reach and, after the related sale of the mobile phone company Orange, a clean balance sheet. Earlier this month Gent gained control of Japan Telecom, that country's No. 3 provider. The deal also increased Vodafone's stake in mobile unit J-Phone and gives the company a major foothold in one of the world's fastest-growing and most profitable mobile markets...
...Forward Spin: Although voice services will continue to be Vodafone's mainstay, Gent expects to launch third-generation mobile services in most of its markets during the second half of 2002. He believes that 20% to 25% of Vodafone's service revenues will be derived from mobile data by 2004. Analysts say Japan is a good place to gain experience with next-generation wireless technology and data services. But the latest deal pits Vodafone directly against NTT DoCoMo, which has already captured nearly 60% of the Japanese market and has global ambitions...