Word: units
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...Morgan Chase helped Enron hide more than $8.5 billion in debt. Canal Plus (Or Minus) In his first move to reduce Vivendi's ?19 billion debt, new CEO Jean-René Fourtou will separate Canal Plus into a new company and sell the rest of its pay-TV unit. INDICATORS A Family Affair Think your family reunions are stressful? John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications, was arrested in New York City with his two sons and two other former executives for allegedly committing hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud at the bankrupt cable company. The Doll Takes A Fall...
...idea is that parents are responsible for their charges' leisure time and, having read the warning sticker, will decide if a film is appropriate. That notion is naively anachronistic in an age when the family as a unit of cultural consumption hardly exists: Dad watches espn, Mom does Lifetime, Little Bro works his Game Boy Advance, and Kid Sis is a Powerpuff Girl. Besides, children can read too. They know that parents strongly cautioned means kids desperately wanted. The whisper of the forbidden is their siren call...
...Well, there was a merger, but, you know, they're like two different units. Now, I think the smart thing for them to do would be to just sell us to someone else. As a matter of fact, I think someone has already offered to buy this unit, so in that case, we would be separate from WorldCom, or they could just spin us off as a separate company again. But we're not going anywhere...
...Well, even if WorldCom goes bankrupt, they're still in business. You know, Enron is still in business. K Mart is still in business. So going bankrupt for a business is not a big deal. And besides, we are a unit within WorldCom, so nothing's going to happen with us. We are their cash cow. They're not going to do anything to harm their cash cow, O.K.? So let's get your name as it appears on your telephone bill... --By David Robinson
...from goat hair and egg shells. Mending the ethnic wounds is going to prove harder. The Stari Most was destroyed by a Croat shell not because of its strategic significance but because of what it stood for - the ethnic cohabitation of Muslim, Croat and Serb. The Croat commander whose unit deliberately brought the bridge down alluded to that when he said the ancient landmark was "not worth even the finger of one Croat soldier." Today, Mostar's Muslims and Croats (the Serbs fled during the war) do not mix much, keeping to their respective banks of the river, especially after...