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SEVENTEEN
7 .
At Rome’s historic Santo Spirito hospital, doctors and nurses use many different Tyco
Healthcare products— including USS/DG™ surgical sutures, Auto Suture®mechanical
stapling instruments and Argyle®cardiothoracic drainage units and suction catheters—
to help their patients and, frequently, save their lives. Tyco Healthcare’s international
operations, which now account for almost 3 5 percent of its total sales, are growing
rapidly around the world, with particularly strong increases in the Asia/Pacific region,
Latin America and Europe.
8 .
The world is going wireless and Tyco Electronics is powering the telecommunications revolution. In 2 0 0 0 ,
6 0 percent of the approximately 4 1 0 million cell phones sold contained one or more Tyco products, such as
gallium arsenide chips and input/output connectors. In addition to our undersea cable, sales of Tyco’s fiber optic
communications products are booming, notching a nearly two-fold increase last year.