Chandran, 51, is not the technician Roth is, but he is every bit the salesman.

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Mr Roberts and Dr Chandran will be up against former Labour MP Paddy Tipping for the job.

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Nortel's new forays into corporate sales and wireless-Net gear are led by India-born Clarence Chandran, chief operating officer.

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K. Chandran said there was some jewelry buying because of the Indian New Year festival over the weekend.

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When spellers and parents pointed out that "viruscide" was an OK variant of "virucide, " it allowed 13-year-old Nikitha Chandran of St.

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Chandran announced his medical leave in March due to complications resulting from a stab wound he suffered in Singapore in 1997.

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And tough: The son of a military officer, Chandran received multiple stab wounds fighting off burglars on a business trip to Singapore in 1997.

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"Our product-development cycle has gone from 240 weeks to 24 weeks, and we can lay out a national network in 6 to 8 weeks, " Chandran says.

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Dr Raj Chandran, one of two independents standing in Nottinghamshire, believes he's been set-up and claims it was a political leak to cause him maximum political damage.

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When 13-year-old Nikitha Chandran and her parents pointed out that "viruscide" was an OK variant of "virucide, " it gave her an extra point that put her into the semifinals after she was initially told she didn't make the cut.

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In addition to losing its digital subscriber line business, Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people), a JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) competitor, is losing its chief operating officer, Clarence Chandran .

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