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...challenge are getting familiar to Hanna, 50. He engineered the late-1990s breakup of the British food conglomerate Dalgety after earlier stints in finance at Avis Europe and Guinness. Now Hanna is leaving a London private-equity firm to become CFO of Cadbury Schweppes in April. He will spearhead the confection-and-beverage company's four-year plan to cut costs by closing some factories and shrinking its work force 10%. Also on the agenda: integrating Adams, which Cadbury bought from Pfizer for $4.2 billion, gaining brands such as Trident, Halls and Dentyne...
...Rush Zimmerman and Darlene Stephenson spearhead last year’s eighth-highest scoring team in the nation...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has been championing the life sciences since he arrived at Mass. Hall. One of his top administrators, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, has instituted new deanships to spearhead interdisciplinary efforts. Now the wills of these two administrative giants have converged in a new commitment to a Center for Systems Neurosciences...
Seven minutes later, co-captain left back Caitlin Fisher went down with a sprained ankle, leaving Harvard without three players who normally spearhead its offense...
...many Israelis, frayed by the constant threat of suicide bombers, the war against Palestinian terrorism has become a fight for personal survival. At the spearhead of that war are the soldiers charged with hunting suicide bombers and their paymasters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip--Israelis like the men from the Nahal Brigade's reconnaissance unit, one of the army's most active terrorism-fighting groups. The unit is admired for its skills at waging guerrilla warfare; early this year, members of the U.S. Green Berets visited Beit Lid to pick up pointers on how to conduct urban combat...