Word: ultimatum
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...inconclusive evidence of intent, know-how and the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction does not quite measure up to President Bush's claim, in his final ultimatum to Iraq on March 19, that "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Nor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's claim, on March 30 that "We know where the WMDs are; they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." Nor, for that matter, to Secretary of State Colin Powell...
Manufacturers and retailers are moving forward with RFID for backroom logistics. In June Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman gave the firm's 100 top suppliers--which provide half the goods on its shelves--a veiled ultimatum about the stuff flowing into its 103 U.S. distribution centers. Vendors who don't use EPC codes on pallets and cases by 2005 could risk losing business. "By 2006, we'd like to roll it out with all our suppliers," says spokesman Tom Williams. Wal-Mart, which did much the same with the bar code, has admitted there is no timeline for RFID-tagging...
...been accused of misleading clients with faulty stock research. Spitzer feared that the talks were losing steam, so one morning he insisted that the major firms send to his office someone empowered to make an immediate decision. Citi sent Prince and a team of lawyers. Spitzer issued his ultimatum: Sign the deal, or he would see them in court. "The lawyers wanted to push back," Spitzer recalls. "Prince cut them off. He basically said, 'O.K., we're done. It's a deal.' He wanted to get this behind him." Prince didn't check in with Weill until later. Soon after...
...sheik, seconded by noisy and emotional elders of the Ajil tribe, laid out their grievances, demands and an ultimatum. The Kurdish looters were threatening their women and children, he said. The U.S. should send a couple of tanks in to maintain order. If not, the sheik concluded, they would take the law into their own hands. The sheik was charming, but there was menace along the fringes of the meeting...
There were early stumbles. After President Bush's Monday ultimatum, MSNBC put up a deadline-countdown clock, as though it were the E! Oscars preshow. And when the first missiles hit, ABC's Peter Jennings was nowhere to be found, hustling onto the set shortly before Bush addressed the nation. As if to redeem itself, the network stayed with the story longer than its rivals. NBC got riveting reports from Baghdad from Arnett, on loan from MSNBC's National Geographic Explorer--he welcomed incoming fire like a bracing morning shower--but anchorman Tom Brokaw should save his sentimental streak...