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...from a dictatorship that existed for more than 30 years. Second, I stated in press conferences that weapons of mass destruction would not be found. This is on the basis of logical reasoning. If I was in the position of President Saddam Hussein, I would have made these arms vanish, either by destroying them or sending them out of the country...
...promote and recycle actresses the way they do actors. So the babe roles go to young not-yet-stars who work cheap; a star's salary may be 25 to 50 times that of his putative leading lady. Some actresses use the exposure wisely; others vanish. But each summer produces a new crop of babes in Boyland...
...took on massive debt to pay cash. It was an easy way to get big quick, to diversify holdings, eliminate competition, or even to outsource tasks such as research and development. Then the bubble burst, stock prices plummeted and many firms - and their shareholders - saw their merged dreams vanish. "People bought air," says Jean-No?l Vieille, equity research director at the French broker Aurel Leven. Companies slammed on the merger brakes - which helped shut down an already dragging global economy. Now a new flurry of eye-catching deals is pointing to a recovery. In the U.S., the software company Oracle...
...bigger, the risk of staying a small fish in the pond is pretty big," says Tom Topolinski, vice president of the Gartner research firm. Already, 25% of the software manufacturers in existence in 2000 have disappeared, mostly by burning through their venture-capital cash. Gartner predicts another 25% will vanish by the end of 2004 through waves of mergers and acquisitions. The recovering stock market is boosting the shares of stronger tech firms more than those of weaker rivals, so there are plenty of bargains around for those whose pockets are still deep...
...trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often, says Yusuf, it was the criminals who rented the hideouts used by al-Qaeda members, sent their coded messages from Internet caf?s and helped them vanish into the city's maze of slums...