Landing gear comes from Messier-Dowty, whose Gloucester factory keeps nearly 1, 000 aerospace engineers in work.
People are joking that economists develop these models, but the real world is much messier.
Bronfman says that when he sold Seagram, Messier promised to forgo taking on more debt.
Edgar Jr. became executive vice chairman of Vivendi, and Messier became chairman and CEO.
But like all things in the stock market, the link is messier than one would prefer.
So if Mr Yeltsin is seriously ill again, things will be even messier than before.
Malignant tumours develop messier networks, which are characterised by a preponderance of small capillaries.
But, as the controversies in Catalonia show, the reality can be a lot messier.
And then there is former Rangers star Mark Messier, who works as a special assistant to Sather.
Bronfman claims that Messier told him to study the advisability of investing in EchoStar, a satellite-TV service.
However, as Dr Axtell and Dr Epstein added further complexity to their model the story became messier.
This is not 1994, with the magnetic Mark Messier driving the blue shirts toward the Stanley Cup.
Next on Messier and Diller's list may very well be the last remaining standalone broadcast network, NBC.
The Nahmads' style is also messier, and louder, than more sedate types in the art world would prefer.
There is growing speculation that Mr Messier's next move might be to sell his most valuable telecoms asset.
It is not only the slide in Vivendi's share price that has put Mr Messier on the spot.
That led to the firing of Jean-Marie Messier, the CEO, early in July.
That followed unease among directors that they had not been properly briefed before Mr Messier took big strategic decisions.
After parting company with Mr Messier on July 3rd, the company confirmed that it was facing a liquidity crunch.
But the arid legal hairsplitting that dominates that chamber poses fewer policy problems than the messier lower courts do.
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In fact it is likely to be far messier with mass lay-offs and cries of foul from aggrieved creditors.
But a modern-day version of that pageant play is guaranteed to be messier and far more dramatic, election scholars say.
It was the first executive order -- a promise that was not kept, because it became messier than anyone thought.
It suspects that directors were not given enough information by Mr Messier to allow them to fulfil their legal duties.
The main cause of this debacle is that the companies the government unloaded were far messier than investors had imagined.
This would be quicker to agree but messier to implement, and would heighten fears of exclusion among the ten non-euro members.
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But the recent travails of other media firms, such as Time Warner, and Vivendi under Jean-Marie Messier, changed Mr Mohn's mind somewhat.
Vivendi's board is inclined to unravel much of what Messier put together.
Plus, estates with no wills can be extra complicated and sometimes messier.
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