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...Networks Corp., the biggest maker of telephone equipment on the continent, will emerge from bankruptcy stripped of many of its most valuable assets along with its ambitions to be a world beater. Meanwhile, Montreal-based BCE Inc., parent of the country's biggest telco, Bell Canada, has continued its slide since a record $42.1 billion deal to privatize the company was abruptly killed in the final weeks...
...with everything that could go wrong—and has a preemptive solution for it.“You don’t want to have too many drawers open at once, because it tips,” he said. “Once it starts tipping, the drawers slide open and then you can’t catch the cabinet...these things weigh a ton.”Anderson’s office, which adjoins the file room, contains the tools he needs to keep track of the thousands of sheets of paper for which he is responsible every...
...newspapers, an industry already in steep decline, an unpopular redesign can be the last straw that pushes readers to cancel their subscription. A survey of major paper redesigns in the last five years suggests that most papers either continued to slide or did worse after changing their design. Thus, back in 2006, when Facebook was still an upstart company trying to compete with MySpace, Zuckerberg had to tread more lightly to cater to his fledgling user base. With Facebook now as healthy as ever, Zuckerberg is free to change what he wants, when he wants...
...siege of the Red Mosque was a turning point in Pakistan's inexorable slide toward religious extremism and violence. Lal Masjid, as it is locally known, became a rallying cry for the Pakistani Taliban who have declared war on the central government. It is their Alamo, and as such Aziz's return to the pulpit after two years in jail marks an ominous victory for the forces that are determined to bring the secular government of this nuclear-armed nation to its knees. "This is the second coming of the Red Mosque," says columnist and politician Ayaz Amir. "It will...
...step back to contain losses, to try and control expenditures,” said Richard E. Kaufman, who works in the psychology department library, one of the science libraries that has yet to see plans for consolidation. “How far can things be allowed to slide?” At a meeting of the Science Library Council on Monday, administrators emphasized that the plan was not driven by the desire to slash budgets. But a librarian in one of the science libraries said she believes that the declared manifesto will not necessarily leave staffers completely secure...