Word: stanley
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...female executives when she became 20th Century Fox's president of production in 1980. The female moviegoing audience, which was largely ignored by studios in the 1970s and '80s, can thank Lansing for helping rediscover them through the success of Fatal Attraction and The Accused, which she produced with Stanley Jaffe. "She was one of the first people [since the Joan Crawford era] to make movies that were successful with female protagonists or antagonists," says Pascal, "movies where a woman was a key character and moved the plot forward...
...head of Morgan Stanley's investment-banking efforts in India, Kidwai, 45, recently guided that country's fastest-growing telecommunications company, Bharti Tele-Ventures, through its IPO. Her unit also managed an IPO for software provider i-flex solutions at the height of fears of an India-Pakistan war. When she needs to unwind, which is often, Kidwai loves to hike the Himalayan foothills...
...with four or five competitors in many European markets, operators may find they have little more pricing power in data than they do in voice. "[Multimedia messaging] may prove popular, but I think people are going to take it for granted," says Iain Daly, an analyst at Charles Stanley in London. The operators are convinced they've got something that people will both want and pay a premium for, and they'd better be right. Because if this doesn't work, 3G really is dead...
...Lanchester is a skilled stylist, though, and he writes brilliantly of such things as Hong Kong's brutal occupation by the Japanese during World War II. Here his emotional distance serves him well. At the Stanley internment camp, Tom says, "morale was surprisingly high, not least because when it dropped, people tended to die." Understatement is perhaps the only appropriate response in the face of brutal suffering. His deadpan style is as clean and potent as a rifle shot...
...against major currencies since April 1. Famed hedge-fund manager and currency speculator George Soros says the buck could fall an additional 33%. "We're at a tipping point of whether foreigners take a massive stake out of the U.S.," says Joseph Quinlan, senior global economist at Morgan Stanley. "If you have another accounting issue along with weaker than expected growth and poor profitability, then you may see a vicious circle." The next in the series. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Jackson, Daren Fonda/New York City and Collette Parker/Atlanta