Word: messier
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...head of Vivendi Universal, Jean-Marie Messier was the flamboyant king of spin - and in the end he flamed out. Now Messier's successor, Jean-René Fourtou, has a new title: the king of spinning off. In the 14 months since Fourtou took over the debt-laden French conglomerate (it has more than 6,000 individual holdings), he has been breaking down the empire piece by piece. Out went the cluster of Internet ventures that never lived up to their hype, the book and magazine publishers for which Messier overpaid, and the water utility that was once the company...
Indecent Proposal Add this to the already bloated annals of fat-cat pay: a U.S. arbitration panel last week upheld a $23.6 million severance payout for Jean-Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after...
...civilian casualties may prove the most shocking. With Iraqi fighters mixing with civilians, it has been hard to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants. And highly touted smart weapons have turned out to be messier than advertised. A 2,000-lb. bomb steered by a JDAM guidance device may rarely miss its mark by more than 13 ft.--the length of the steering system and the explosive--but when the bomb blows, it sends high-speed shrapnel flying as far as a mile. There may be a lot of uncounted innocents in such a big footprint...
Down the street at Ron's barbershop, where she cuts hair, Melissa Meyer has been polling customers about their feelings on Iraq. Eighty percent of them, she says, are for going to war and cleaning up a mess they suspect will only grow messier if it gets swept under the rug. Her father Bob Meyer, a retired corporate executive and a gun owner whose politics are conservative, says he can't understand the liberals and the pacifists. "They want to disarm me," he says, "but they don't want to disarm Saddam Hussein...
THAT MIGHT MAKE FUND RAISING A LOT EASIER. SO WHO'S THE MESSIER SANCHEZ? Linda: That'd be me. I'm not necessarily messy. I just put things in piles. It works for me. I don't have to have my Post-its arranged by color and size on my desk...