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...sold in Europe. According to the Austin, Texas-based market research firm DisplaySearch, about 40% of all lcd monitors and 30% of all lcd TVs are sold in Europe; this year LG expects to sell about $5 billion worth of goods there. Small wonder, then, that the LG.Philips unit's operating profit soared 307% last year, to $935 million. Last week the joint venture began trading its own stock on the Seoul exchange...
...house lawyer for Boeing in 1996. Harris said Gibbs was initially well-liked by the company—which Harris said was evidenced by his promotion to “deal maker” for the company as the director of business affairs for the Digital Satellite Systems unit. Boeing also paid for Gibbs to attend an MBA program at the University of California Los Angeles...
...News Medical Unit in Needham, Mass. consults on health stories for all of the network’s shows. It contains the largest database of medical and healthcare experts in the country, I’m told—a marketplace of ideas available in convenient sound bites at the drop of an email...
Last week, a study came out showing the negative effects of a mother’s worrying on the mental health of her unborn child. The med unit decided to downplay it, because it would just give the worrying mother something else to worry about. So maybe it is important, after all, to have educated people up in the broadcast journalism ranks, making those decisions responsibly...
...second letter to the party leadership in February--this one denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, on their way to apply for visas to visit their daughter living in the U.S., the septuagenarian Jiang and his wife Hua Zhongwei disappeared. Initially, officials at his work unit, the No. 301 People's Liberation Army Hospital in Beijing, said the couple had been taken to a secret location "for their protection." Sources told TIME last week that they had been taken into custody by military and party officials determined to re-educate Jiang and make him recant through daily...