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Like many southerners who move away, Wesley Clark of Arkansas and John Edwards of North Carolina now wear their Southernness gaudily, as though they must prove its authenticity. For them, the South seems not so much a home as a talisman to ward off Northeasterners and liberals, Dukakises and--they hope--Kerrys...
Still, Kay's team kept looking. Some agency analysts had predicted that a number of mysterious mobile trailers found in Iraq were for the manufacture of biological weapons. These staff members were shipped out to the field to prove their hunch. Kay reported that several returned deeply upset from the trailers, which, it turned out, were for manufacturing hydrogen for use in weather balloons. "They said to me, 'I'm sorry we can't find what we told you existed,'" Kay recalled. Yet some analysts would not give up the fight. Kay told of a months-long...
...true test of success is performance, and the new Tyco is just starting to prove itself. Investors have responded to Breen's bold governance reforms in the first year, but they are now looking for old-fashioned profits. "We need to achieve the operational and financial goals that we've stated to investors," says David FitzPatrick, Tyco's chief financial officer. To make that happen, Tyco's new management team has to correct years of apparent operational neglect. David Robinson, the new head of the Fire & Security division, says that when he arrived at Tyco last March, he found "hundreds...
...likely to be at least two years off, as banks wait to see whether the company can continue to pay down debt. Breen has pledged to come up with an annual $1 billion in cash over the next several years to reduce debt. "There's nothing like cash to prove you got a great company," he says. Tyco may also need a cushion against claims from shareholder lawsuits for mismanagement under Kozlowski--which some analysts say could amount to $10 billion or more. "I'm the first to admit that there is uncertainty there," FitzPatrick says...
...trade name, Seroxat) for kids last June, and went on to ban the others in the following six months. Why the difference, when British authorities were looking at the same data as the FDA? One reason is that most studies on effectiveness aren't really definitive. They don't prove one way or the other whether the drugs work significantly better than placebos--and the Brits went with the more conservative interpretation. That, argues Dr. Graham Emslie, co-chair of the American panel and the author of several studies on SSRIs, is shortsighted. "A failure to show effectiveness...