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...this week to figure out how to defeat the lethal "improvised explosive devices"-roadside bombs-that have become a grave threat deployed by the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told some of the military-industrial complex's brainiest thinkers on Monday that "we owe it to the troops" to harness new technologies to squelch the IED threat. Such remote-controlled weapons kill and wound more U.S. troops than any other inside Iraq, England said. Highlighting just how seriously the Pentagon takes the threat, last week England signed a memo elevating what had been...
...owe Norm thanks for a great deal, perhaps most for the boldness of his imagination. From the moment he arrived at the top of America's largest, most successful magazine publisher, he thought only of how to make it better and bigger. I mentioned those 154 magazines. When he got here, there were 21. Norm managed scores of acquisitions and start-ups to help make Time Inc. a far more global enterprise in the era of the global economy...
...they were using the movement to promote themselves. He confronted Bevel, who had been a mentor to Jackson and Young, as a genius who flummoxed his own heart. "You don't like to work on anything that isn't your own idea," said King. "Bevel, I think you owe...
...gotta learn to let go of some things. My advice is pick a couple of things that matter and then leave yourself the flexibility to seize opportunities as they come up. Most of us feel we've had a pretty good shot at life. And we feel we owe our country and maybe the world at least some measure of our time and talents. And if we can do it together so that there doesn't seem to be any political edge to it, so much the better...
...brands and more than $2.2 billion in bottled-water sales, is the largest bottled-water company in the U.S., and it's at the center of a water war on several fronts. As owner of Poland Spring, which uses 500 million gallons of Maine water a year, Nestlé could owe $96 million in tax each year if Wilfong's proposal is passed. "His mission is misguided," says Kim Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé North America, which now pays only for the land where the springs are found. In response to a new tax, he says, Nestlé would cancel a planned...