Word: reductionism
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Wall Street would love to see Eliot Spitzer realize his immediate political ambitions--becoming, say, Governor of New York or possibly landing a role in a Kerry Administration. Not that financial types wish him well; they just wish he would move on. As New York's attorney general, Spitzer, 44...
SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to a year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge; in the first court-martial stemming from the abuse of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad. Sivits pleaded guilty to taking pictures of naked prisoners being humiliated. Three other...
(2 of 2) The Tarantino jury was true to its interests: all eight prizewinners were either American, East Asian or French. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first documentary to win the best-in-show Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World 48 years ago. Two...
The only way to prove the point is to keep the jets on the tarmac and see what happens. That's exactly what occurred in 2001, between Sept. 11 and 14, when U.S. air travel was shut down following the terrorist attacks. During that period, the swing between daytime highs...
Nothing on corporate balance sheets so symbolizes the excesses of the 1990s as the towering debt left behind by fallen CEOs who couldn't control their acquisitive urges. Accordingly, their successors are deleveraging. The prize for the biggest reduction goes to Thierry Breton, a sometime science-fiction novelist who moved...