Abroad, Fiat is better known; but Finmeccanica, which is Europe's third-biggest military supplier and makes everything from missiles to trains as well as helicopters, is the high-tech jewel in Italy's industrial crown albeit a tarnished one.Results published on July 31st showed orders up 43% on the same period last year, but profits down 18%.
The shine on their gold records translated to tarnish on MCA stock.
Yet one prize eluded Mr Wen: a long-sought promise to lift the EU's 15-year-old embargo on arms sales to China.Seen by some in Europe as outdated, anachronistic and a residual tarnish on an otherwise shiny new relationship, the lethal-weapons ban was slapped on after the Tiananmen Square massacre of democracy activists in 1989.
X-ray fluorescence images (collected at 3950 eV excitation energy, above the Ag L3-edge, 3351 eV) of Ag, Cl, and S (obtained with partial fluorescence yield of Ag Lα and S and Cl Kα X-ray emission) and accompanying XANES spectra of a tarnish spot on the plate can be seen in Fig. 5.
When the field rounded the final turn, however, there was little doubt that Cyber Secret was going to put a little tarnish on Storm Flag Flying's legend, which had been built on a 4-for-4 record.
Putting a little tarnish on Tebow on the way out, whether intentional or not, doesn't hurt management.
BMW's maladroit execution of the car's various electronic widgets are a frustrating tarnish on the 428i.
"Xerox is still the premier brand, and we'll recover from any tarnish on it real soon," said Paul A. Hartley, a Xerox vice president.
When the New York Times disclosed on Feb. 15 that IBM had used the $340 million gain from the sale of an optics business to reduce fourth-quarter overhead costs, investors hammered the stock down 5%. Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's boss from April 1993 to Mar. 1 of this year, doesn't want any tarnish on his record.
Fig. 5 XPS imaging of knife tarnish spot: Analysis of a tarnish spot visible on 10 nm Al2O3 ALD coated silver knife blade after 1 year ambient aging with (b) SEM image and c XPS imaging with overlain quantified line profile of O 1s, Al 2p, S 2p and Ag 3d spectra.
