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...prices for Apple's computers were high compared with the more competitive IBM-clone market, and the Mac found itself increasingly limited to the niches it now tenuously occupies: schools and desktop publishing. The rank-and-file computer buyer was less interested in exquisite engineering than in sticker price. Apple's share has dropped from about 15% of the personal computer market...
...weight, the most valuable material in the world. A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme, streptokinase, or for 'ice-minus,' which prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth $5 billion to the right buyer." There is popularity in a passage like that. It bears information a man, even a casual-reading man, can do something with. Win a bar bet. Pass the time creatively on the scaffold with the hangman. It is skinny with legs. Crichton is Captain Reliable at this...
...When you have a concentration of decision-making and buying power in a few hands rather than many hands, it leads to an overall lack of diversity in what gets published," said Carole Horne, the head book buyer for Harvard Bookstore and the president of the New England Booksellers Association...
...offer of about $35 a share for tbs stock, which had been trading at around $24, was a boon for Turner shareholders, but the potential benefit for the buyer was the more controversial point. "This is an absolutely natural fit for Time Warner,'' says PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon, who stresses the success of Turner's programming in foreign markets. Other analysts, including Edward Froelich of Pershing & Co., are less impressed, partly because the heavily indebted Time Warner will be financing the deal by issuing an additional 189 million shares of stock, there by increasing the outstanding shares 50% and threatening...
...that while it would not try to break up this deal, it remained interested in Turner if the Time Warner acquisition failed. Says Harold Vogel, a media analyst at Cowen & Co.: "The only thing that's clear is that Turner Broadcasting is in play. Ted has turned from a buyer into a seller...