He's a man of many secrets who is now trying to find the key to corporate success. Cylink has been in rough waters for the past year. The drop in revenue reflected a continuing reduction in customer procurement during a slowing business environment, the company says in a statement. Cost-cutting programs, announced in October 2000, reduced total operating expenses by 13 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, and 19 percent from the fourth quarter of 2000. Those programs included a 15 percent reduction in personnel.
Analysts are cautious.
They still keep plugging along. Bill was one of those rare people that when he left, things changed and they didn't change for the better. Here was a guy who more or less single-handedly was pushing his agency into the future. Mr. Crowell grew up in Baton Rouge, La., and Dallas. Working for the National Security Agency was his first job out of Louisiana State University after graduating in 1962 with a degree in political science.