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...computer. The service, to begin by the end of the year, will be available from 8 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and noon to 11 p.m. on weekends. PBS has not yet disclosed how much it will charge. The primary clientele will be financial managers, including Merrill Lynch's broker network. The broadcast signal will be available to an estimated 96% of the U.S. population...
Whatever happens with Moscow, the U.S. figures to remain the key broker in the Middle East. Three weeks after the Vienna meetings, Egypt's Mubarak, the leader of Israel's only neighbor to make peace, may clarify the latest Arab position on his visit to Washington. "We have a lot of movement in the Arab world," mused an Israeli government official last week. "Whether the movers are running around in circles or not, we shall see." In the Middle East, often called the land of missed opportunities, the trick for Washington is to keep a sharp...
Many discounters offer investors who own personal computers a chance to buy and sell stocks electronically without having to talk with a broker. All these investors have to do is connect their machines to a telephone and call in to the discount firm's computer. Then they can type instructions for trades on their keyboards...
More than that, the self-styled crown prince agitated for a system of conservative dictatorship far removed from the intellectual socialism of his elders. Associated with a group of young toughs and regarded in some quarters as a lawless power broker, Sanjay hung around his doting mother like a dark and menacing shadow. As Indian Essayist Ved Mehta wrote in A Family Affair, "Rightly or wrongly, Sanjay was seen as representing the ruthless side of his mother...
Miss Jennie Jerome, daughter of a Wall Street broker, married one of the Churchills of Blenheim Palace, and a whole generation of debutantes sailed across the Atlantic in hopes of doing as well. By contrast, one of Ring Lardner's social-climbing heroines went to stay in an extravagantly expensive Palm Beach hotel in the hope of meeting a grandee like the Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago. When she finally did encounter her in a corridor, Lardner's narrator relates, the great lady only said to her: "Please see that they's some towels...