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...centrifuges and the equipment to build hundreds more. The deal was worth $100 million. To fill the order, Khan turned to old contacts in Western Europe and South Africa, in some instances using the same people he had done business with in the 1980s. Among the shadowy middlemen involved over the years were South African Johan Meyer and German-- South African Gerhard Wisser, who allegedly helped set up a processing facility that could be shipped whole to Libya. Khan's crew tapped furnacemakers in Italy, lathemakers in Spain, and Swiss middlemen who helped design parts for construction in Southeast Asia...
...such a finding would allow the U.S. to ratchet up its charges that Tehran's nuclear research has a military purpose. What's more, sources close to Khan Research Laboratories in Islamabad tell TIME that even though its head has been removed, Khan's illicit network of suppliers and middlemen is still out there. "Nothing has changed," one of Khan's former aides says. "The hardware is still available, and the network hasn't stopped." A recent probe of Khan's lab found that 16 cylinders of uranium hexafluoride gas, a critical ingredient for uranium enrichment, are missing, sources close...
...their next trick: taking on Wall Street pros at their own game and, improbably, coming out on top. Although much media coverage of Google?s Initial Public Offering portrayed it as a debacle, it was anything but. Brin and Page defied conventional wisdom by launching an IPO that marginalized middlemen and flustered investment bankers. The end result of its Dutch-auction: the company raised $1.67 billion in cash and millions for its individual employees. But it wasn?t without some turbulence. Brin and Page ran afoul of the SEC, reduced the number of shares sold and slashed the offering...
...them," argues Matt Phillips, a spokesman for the British Phonographic Industry. Demands from record labels (and the rise of real tones) could throw current ring-tone business models into disarray. Up until now, mobile operators like Vodafone and Orange have taken around 40% of the ring-tone fee; middlemen like Musiwave and Buongiorno, whose roles range from composing and aggregating songs to delivering them, around 40%; and music publishers - which are sometimes owned by labels and sometimes aren't - up to 20%, which they share with the actual songwriters. "The 40% that's getting squeezed are the guys...
Bernakevitch, a junior who played wing during his first two seasons, was forced to move to the pivot this year after the graduation of Crimson middlemen Dominic Moore, Brett Nowak and Aaron...