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...There was some speculation that if there was enough serious damage to structures, you would have additional demand for wood supplies." -- LUMBER BROKER EXPLAINING WHY HOPEFUL TRADERS RAN UP THE PRICE OF LUMBER FUTURES AS HURRICANE EMILY APPROACHED
...friend, "Sam was the king of artistic seriouness," and the appetite for serious films -- dark and downbeat, reeking of alienation -- is not what it was. In 1993, would studios green-light Lumet's Equus, Allen's Interiors, Altman's Quintet or Nichols' Carnal Knowledge? Cohn was a power broker during the decade or two when every movie director was by definition an untouchable auteur. Nowadays even true auteurs such as Scorsese are kept on rather short leashes, indulged their expensive artistic visions not much beyond one or two failures...
...Kansas City, Missouri, a 15-year-old went to the movies with his mother -- and shot her as they watched the film. "I don't know why I did it," he said. On Thursday in Burlingame, California, a man walked into a real estate office, shot one broker and wounded another before trying to kill himself. He had just been evicted from his home...
...Speaker managed to join the elite ranks of favored IPO buyers through a high school chum who is now his broker, Peter de Roetth of Boston's Account Management Corp. De Roetth defended his sweet offerings by saying, "I would like Tom Foley not to have to think about money." Putting up very little cash, Foley allowed De Roetth to buy and quickly sell shares in companies that rose dramatically in value soon after they were issued. Says Jay Ritter, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois: "Speculators like Foley are just feeding at the trough, throwing sand...
Bentsen and McLarty worked steadily behind the scenes last week to keep Louisiana Senator John Breaux quiet about his objections to the energy tax until the House vote was safely over. But eventually they realized they might do better enlisting the Senator to help broker a compromise to lessen the BTU tax's impact. Officials said House members' reservations would be taken into account when the Senate marks up its measure...