Word: messier
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...JEAN-MARIE MESSIER Put an ambitious, cosmopolitan French banker in charge of a 148-year-old French water company, and you get...a global-media megalith called VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, with telecom and cable assets in Europe; TV, movie and music studios on both sides of the Atlantic; and theme parks in the U.S. and Japan. Internet maven Messier, 44, may have racked up too much debt on his recent acquisition binge. But Vivendi posted a 30% jump in third-quarter cash flow, thanks much more to subscriptions than advertising. Just like in the water business...
When I was the Assistant Editor, putting out What Is To Be Done? every week was a little like writing a term paper in a course you really loved, only messier. You had a deadline; it didn’t matter if you felt like it; it was going to be exhausting; it was going to be exhilarating; it was largely about words you cared about, terrifically; you were going to get to eat a lot of junk food; and you knew, absolutely, you were going to be up all night. It’s funny, though...
...Registration is this very complicated system to manage. And with the advent of groups doing a lot of registration drives and having more control over the registration process, and people registering online, the situation has gotten even messier. We anticipate things are going to get a lot worse until someone takes control over the situation. People think they?re registering and they?re not, or there are computer malfunctions...
...some very good Bruins teams, but both times he made it to the precipice, he ran into the juggernaut of the 1980s, the Edmonton Oilers. No team in that decade—not the Bruins, not anyone—could match the likes Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glen Anderson, and Grant Fuhr...
...practice, of course, it has been a whole lot messier. The nation's old, Balkanized transmission grid isn't built to handle so much long-distance traffic. And freshly liberated markets won't necessarily attract new suppliers because the cost of entry--a multibillion-dollar power plant--is high. So real competition is, by and large, harder to find. "If deregulation is a good idea, and it still may be, it needs to be implemented when you have the infrastructure in place," says James Bernstein, commerce commissioner of Minnesota, which still has a regulated electricity system and may have...