Word: messier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...covered especially well is the most important story of recent times: the war in Iraq. Even before fighting began, we put the topic on the cover six times, ranging in focus from what life would be like after Saddam was gone (our conclusion: the peace would be messier than the war) to the role of women in the new military. As war loomed, we dispatched 18 reporters and photographers to the region. Many of them were embedded with U.S. troops, but we also kept a team in Baghdad as bombs rained down on the capital, and a team in northern...
...anyone who will listen that it never promised a quick and easy consummation of its policies. But it has not come to pass yet, and Bush was forced to reckon last week with the reality of the enormous task he has set himself and to acknowledge that it is messier, more daunting and more complicated than he ever imagined. Bush needs help, and he has admitted as much by calling on the U.N. Security Council to pass a new resolution to encourage the flow of more money and armed forces into Iraq. How he copes with the new reality...
Should the deal go through, GE would get a huge factory of content for its NBC division--a factory that Vivendi couldn't run profitably. The onetime French water company that ex-CEO Jean-Marie Messier tried to build into a media empire imploded under huge debt and a devastated stock price. Now Vivendi will get its $14 billion asking price, including $3.8 billion in cash up front as well as a 20% stake in the new venture, while still hanging on to its telecommunications company Cegetel and the Canal Plus TV business. NBC Universal would unite the top-rated...
...groups. For an occupying force--as the old imperial powers learned the hard way--keeping public order in such circumstances is the hardest of all tasks. Sooner or later, everyone hates the outsider. The occupation of Iraq has been a mess for months. It just got a whole lot messier. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and James Carney/Washington
...board signed off on a plan to increase its stake in a Moroccan telecom firm. But if he wanted to focus principally on telecommunications, then Fourtou's most logical move would have been to sell the U.S. entertainment assets outright; Edgar Bronfman Jr., who originally sold Universal to Messier and is on Vivendi's board, offered $8 billion in cash. Fourtou himself acknowledges that he doesn't yet have a final strategy. One possibility, he said last week, is to split Vivendi into two companies: one focusing on entertainment, the other on telecommunications. "Should they remain together?" he asked...