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...Americans are always trying different diets to try to solve their nutrition needs. We have gone through periods when it was avoid sugar, avoid fat, avoid carbs. With a portfolio as large as ours, avoiding carbs had some pluses. It helped our cheese business; it helped our bacon and meat business. But it hurt other businesses, like our cookies and crackers...
...doesn't fit," acknowledges Sawiris - at least not for now. He plans to slot Wind more comfortably into his portfolio by wringing better returns out of the company, which lags far behind its two Italian competitors, TIM and Vodafone, in the amount of revenue it derives from each customer. But Sawiris says he's expecting a continuing consolidation of the mobile-phone industry, and is trying to position himself for the future. For a time, Wind and Orascom would remain entirely separate entities. But the two operations could eventually be put together. "My vision in five or eight years...
...year Siemens veteran, including three years running its U.S. operations, Kleinfeld is known for his cross-cultural savvy--a true next-generation European CEO. The rumor mill is spinning that his next deal could be with a cell-phone handsetmaker to fill the one gap in Siemens' communications portfolio. By Coco Masters
...million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested 159 protesters who had been on a weeklong sleep-in vigil decrying the university's $1.7 billion portfolio with companies tainted by apartheid...
Peres resolved the impasse with Shamir by ordering a telephone canvass of the entire Cabinet, and won a vote of 13 to 12 in favor of the Weizman trip, with Religious Affairs Minister Yosef Burg of the National Religious Party and Minister Without Portfolio Yigal Hurvitz of the Ometz Party casting the deciding votes. The Prime Minister received the good news as he left a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, who is laying the groundwork for a visit next month by Secretary of State George Shultz...