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...want to be.” The problem may be that people hear the word “television” in HRTV and believe, perhaps not unjustifiably, that they will be able to broadcast, he says. “They came here expecting to flip a switch and get live and broadcasting,” says Tempest...
...feed in rounds, making sure they don't tangle. Below and ahead but out of sight unless he leans back so far he is lying almost flat is the driver. In here, the team commands its own little world. This button swings the turret around. The switch in front of the gunner fires an optically tracked wire-guided missile. But the outside world is harder to control. Out there, over the Iraqi border, are enemies who will want to kill these Americans if war comes. And now protesters at home are demanding that the troops return from here without firing...
...also says she had some tough questions for Ahold about its cash flow, but received only vague answers. "There was no way to see the true picture," she says. Some of these ambiguities and discrepancies are supposed to disappear over the next two years as European companies switch to new international accounting standards that are closer to the U.S. rules. But the changeover could sow more confusion. At Bouygues, a French construction and telecommunications company, for example, finance chief Olivier Poupart-Lafarge says he expects managers will return to using two sets of books: one for external investors and regulators...
...said she received only a seventh grade education because a government intervention to allow coca farmers to switch to less internationally controversial crops failed, forcing her to return home in order to help her family survive...
Admit it: no matter how much you enjoyed the Ozzie Osbourne ad for Pepsi Twist during the Super Bowl, it didn't make you switch soft drinks. That wasn't always the case. Until about 20 years ago, savvy ads in mass media were powerful opinion shapers, but the proliferation of media outlets like cable networks and the Internet has blunted their impact. Edward Keller and Jonathan Berry, authors of The Influentials, think they have found a solution. Using proprietary data from their employer, research firm RoperASW, they argue that the trick is to identify the 1 American...