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...Steel and Dutch firm Hoogovens. In order for steelmakers to wield sufficient clout, notes Tommy Trask, an analyst at Standard & Poor's, steel "needs to be as consolidated as the iron-ore suppliers or the end customers." Both Mittal and Wilbur Ross, the former investment banker and distressed investment specialist who helped create ISG, envisage a future where steel is dominated by as few as half a dozen multinational companies. "Because of the scale of the transaction," Ross told Time, "it will accelerate [the merger trend]. It's inevitable...
BORN. To Private First Class LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs: a son; in Fort Bragg, N.C. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years in prison...
...chicken specialist owned by YUM! Brands is China's dominant fast-food joint, with more than 1,100 outlets and an estimated $1 billion in revenue. It plans 250 more outlets next year. Far from relying on Colonel Sanders' secret recipe, KFC has added a twist to 40% of its dishes, such as red-hot Sichuan chicken and Peking-duck-flavored poultry...
...reservists who declined to obey orders to transport fuel through frequently ambushed territory on Wednesday phoned their parents and begged them to tell members of Congress that this was a "suicide mission" because of the miserable condition of their unarmored vehicles. "Mom, I need you to raise pure hell," Specialist Amber McClenny said in a message on her family's answering machine in Dothan, Ala. Six of their trucks were scheduled to be removed from service because they were so outdated, and none could go faster than 40 m.p.h., according to Sergeant Larry McCook, who phoned his wife in Jackson...
...It’s not about competition,” he said. “After 30 years if we’re worried about competition we’re in trouble. The business is so sophisticated you have to be a specialist...