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...need a complex management structure to integrate them." Bowne CEO Robert Johnson acknowledges the challenge. "We underestimated the difficulty of getting the disparate companies we acquired to work together in a cooperative fashion," he says. "It took us three years of pain and significant losses." But, he says, that phase is ending. The BGS unit, which now includes Mendez, posted a $2 million profit in the third quarter of this year. And the division expects to deliver profits of $10 million...
...Publicly, the U.S. knew better than to declare victory, insisting that Taliban fighters may be preparing to begin a new phase of the war, one in which they could do what they once did best: battle a more powerful foreign force from redoubts in the mountains, where tanks can't go and helicopters crash. The surviving Taliban could still withdraw to avoid the hellfire of American strikes and then spring ambushes on towns and villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance...
...While the Taliban's rapid decline has cheered the U.S., it also ushers in a new phase of the war in which U.S. special forces conduct intense search-and-destroy missions against hard-line Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in southern Afghanistan on an increasingly murky battlefield. It's easy to see why Washington would be skeptical of any deal allowing safe passage for any Taliban fighters. Further south, the Taliban have often simply retreated and dispersed, handing towns and regions over to relatively friendly local Pashtun mujahedeen commanders who share their hostility to the Northern Alliance, and in some...
...checked for bombs. On U.S. domestic flights, carry-on is X-rayed, but checked luggage generally is not. The industry has resisted mandatory checks, arguing that there is a shortage of machines, the checks are too slow, and they register too many false positives. The FAA planned to phase in a check-all-bags requirement starting in 2009, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, it said it might move that...
...Publicly, the U.S. knew better than to declare victory, insisting that Taliban fighters may be preparing to begin a new phase of the war, one in which they could do what they once did best: battle a more powerful foreign force from redoubts in the mountains, where tanks can't go and helicopters crash. The surviving Taliban could still withdraw to avoid the hellfire of American strikes and then spring ambushes on towns and villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance...