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...approached Bruckheimer, who says he was intrigued by "a period that had a lot of innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's WW II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of adults ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...
...world's biggest telecommunications equipment makers, not a bad thing for Tchuruk to put on his résumé. For another, despite the pummeling it has take in the stock market, Lucent - which set a record for the biggest ipo in history when it was spun off from AT&T in 1996 - still retains some glossy assets, among them a huge U.S. sales force and customer base and the research capabilities of its highly regarded Bell Laboratories. (Although any deal involving a foreign takeover of that research facility, which does some highly sensitive work for U.S. agencies, will certainly...
...Enron's will be the first new skyscraper in downtown Houston since 1987--to be followed by three more by 2003. Besides Enron, Calpine Corp., the nation's leading independent-power company, based in California, will move into a new 32-story high-rise. And Reliant Resources, the IPO spun off this month from its Houston parent to deal with Texas' new deregulated electricity market, has signed on for offices in a 36-story skyscraper...
...Enron's will be the first new skyscraper in downtown Houston since 1987--to be followed by three more by 2003. Besides Enron, Calpine Corp., the nation's leading independent-power company, based in California, will move into a new 32-story high-rise. And Reliant Resources, the IPO spun off this month from its Houston parent to deal with Texas' new deregulated electricity market, has signed on for offices in a 36-story skyscraper...
...Infineon Technologies Public company based in Munich, Germany CEO: Ulrich Schmacher What it does: Spun off from Siemens in 1999, Infineon makes memory products and semiconductor solutions Why it is hot: It is reporting strong margins in wireline communications, security and chip- card integrated circuits and in its automative and industrial business groups www.infineon.com | last year...