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Both occupations have boomed over the past several years. According to Brian Ruttenbur, senior vice president of MORGAN KEEGAN, an investment firm based in Memphis, spending on business intelligence and security has swelled to $7 billion annually, from $1.8 billion in 1980, and should double in the next seven years, spurred in part by the Sept. 11 attacks. While it is difficult to quantify spending on competitive intelligence because the industry is so diffuse, membership in the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) has risen to nearly 7,000, from 1,550 in 1990, and the overall market for business...
ZIMBABWE Mugabe Hangs On Apparently fatigued by the disputed election that saw President Robert Mugabe re-elected, Zimbabweans largely ignored opposition calls for a three-day general strike. Mugabe was pressured by South Africa and Nigeria to take defeated opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a government of national unity as his country was suspended from the Commonwealth for a year. As violence against white farmers and opposition supporters continued, Tsvangirai was taken to court to be charged with plotting Mugabe's assassination...
...week after Robert Mugabe won another term in a presidential election widely regarded as rigged, it's back to business as usual in Zimbabwe. Opposition leader and presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai was formally charged with treason for allegedly plotting to assassinate Mugabe, another white farmer was killed by marauders, the son of a human-rights activist was beaten, and youth militia went on a rampage against supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. Tsvangirai, the third MDC official to be arraigned on the treason charge, was released on bail and had to surrender his passport. "It was expected...
...activity on Wall Street last year, up from 21% in 2000. Companies like Tyco International and Citigroup are jettisoning divisions; others, including GE, the Hilton Group and Motorola, are expected to offload units soon. In Europe, the market is smaller, but it's growing exponentially. According to J.P. Morgan, sales and spin-offs represented 8.2% of pan-European M and A activity last year, up from 2.8% in 1999. In the same period, Europe's entire M and A market nosedived nearly 60%. "Europe is probably in the second inning of spin-off activity, while the U.S. is already...
...just 18 months after arriving at medical school, Chan knew. Enlisting the help of his brother Ian, who worked at Morgan Stanley, and two venture capitalists at a Boston law firm, Chan dropped out to start his own company, called U.S. Genomics. He was just 23 years...