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Control Data's profits have been dampened over the years by Norris' enthusiasm for social causes and experimental projects. He has committed the company to ventures that range from the development of wind-powered generators to an effort to revitalize urban neighborhoods. Says Gary Blauer, an analyst with Dain Bosworth, a Minneapolis-based brokerage: "Control Data clearly has in the past been willing to nurture a business for a very long period of time when it wasn't profitable. Wall Street has a hard time with that...
Although other coffee producers may push up exports, coffee prices are likely to be erratic for the next few months. Says Sandra Kaul, a research analyst with Shearson Lehman: "Even if there is plenty of coffee around, the flow of it will not be very smooth." Indonesia and other countries are not set up to ship significantly larger quantities...
...large cast, Captain Dreyfus is the least compelling. Framed by traitorous colleagues, he was at first incredulous, then hysterical and finally benumbed. His family and friends tirelessly protested his innocence, joined after two years by Emile Zola, the most famous and reviled writer of his time. The analyst of motives thundered what others had only whispered: the dominant powers of France, threatened by Germany, narcotized by visions of a glorious and irretrievable past, regarded Jews as dual threats. In one view, they were radicals seeking to undo the state. When that label did not adhere, they were vicious usurers, arms...
...announce earnings of $72 million for the third quarter of 1986. He has promised an unspecified profit for the fourth quarter. If he delivers, it will be the first time TWA has finished that period in the black since 1966. Even so, says J. Clarence Morrison, a senior analyst at the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm, the "question is whether Icahn's plate is now getting too full...
Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. analyst, warns against dismissing such adherents as "kooks or country bumpkins. These people are very adept at using weapons and explosives." The movement would be more dangerous, he says, if an effective leader were to arise. J. Gordon Melton, of Santa Barbara, Calif., an expert on marginal U.S. religions, agrees. "It's not a huge movement, and it's a fairly disorganized movement," he says. "But it doesn't take that many people with guns to do the damage." --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Chicago and Mary Wormley/Los Angeles