EL PASO MISERY

BY PHILIP FINE

WILLIAM Wise, the embattled chief executive of US gas pipeline giant El Paso, will retire by the end of 2003. The announcement came last month just one week after El Paso said it would sell nearly US$3 billion (Pounds 1.9 billion)
more in assets than originally planned in a bid to reduce its debt.

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