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...sales will be about $3 million this year. He hopes to draw on his contacts back home for capital to expand. Eastern Travel is looking to break into the more profitable New York City-to- Boston corridor. Wong will need all the help he can get to outlast the wave of consolidation that may soon shake the industry. His competitors are already moving upmarket. Some of the family-owned Chinatown companies have brought in professional managers to expand, and Boston's Chinatown bus lines recently grabbed space at Boston's South Station. The shooting may have stopped...
...that country can take care of itself. U.S. foreign policy helped shape today's Middle East. If we don't take responsibility for our past actions and remain to clean up the mess we have made, we'll have to go back into Iraq to hunt down the next wave of terrorists. God grant that we lose no more soldiers. But let's not leave before the job is done. Michael Martinez Houston The planning for the war in Iraq was poor and short term. The U.S. may have won some games in Iraq, but it has definitely lost...
...ThyssenKrupp. Arcelor is trying to reduce its heavy dependence on the European market that now accounts for 75% of its business. "Expansion into North America is a key strategic objective for Arcelor," Dollé explained. Arcelor's hyperactive end to the year was just part of a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions that is sweeping Europe these days; in boardrooms from Manchester to Moscow, cross-border strategies similar to Dollé's are the driving force. In Europe and globally, 2005 is poised to go down in the record books as the third best year for M&A activity...
...price." And he's not about to bet the farm on a huge deal: the $6 billion over three years that Pauget has earmarked for acquisitions is only slightly more than the company's pretax income last year. If such targeted prudence prevails throughout Europe, this merger wave could be a lot less accident-prone than the last...
...that country can take care of itself. U.S. foreign policy helped shape today's Middle East. If we don't take responsibility for our past actions and remain to clean up the mess we have made, we'll have to go back into Iraq to hunt down the next wave of terrorists. God grant that we lose no more soldiers. But let's not leave before the job is done. MICHAEL MARTINEZ Houston...