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...stock dropped nearly 17% during the week, closing Friday at 26 1/2. Wall Street speculators signaled that they liked only one scenario: that an investor buying Bronfman's block of shares could set off a contest for Time Warner. Rumors that General Electric's Jack Welch could be the buyer helped send Time Warner's stock up more than 3% on Friday, closing...
...wish I still had my 1937 ``stupid'' car, a six-cylinder Dodge with no gadgets. For air conditioning, I would crank open the windshield, and I got a consistent 18 m.p.g. Pity the poor smart-car buyer who has a breakdown in the boonies...
...people who don't speak Cantonese. Just ask the Jackie fans who track down his movies in the Chinatowns of U.S. cities or visit specialized video stores. "Jackie Chan's work is as popular with our customers as anything by Orson Welles or Francis Coppola," says Meg Johnson, buyer for Videots, a smart Santa Monica outlet. Finding a Chan film under its multiplicity of titles is one challenge. Another can be watching it, in washed-out, nth-generation dupes with indifferent dubbing or Japanese subtitles (or none at all) and with the sides of the wide-screen images lopped...
...more than 40% of those machines went to home users. This was the year when millions of Americans -- having resisted the computer industry's blandishments for more than a decade -- finally made the plunge. And that may spell big changes for the industry. In the past, according to Liz Buyer, an analyst at T. Rowe Price, people put PCs in their dens primarily so they could bring work home; now they seem to be buying computers as they buy TVs -- for their entertainment value...
...Experts say that even in a good year, as many as 10% of computers sold will be returned to stores by disgruntled customers. Judging by the lines at return desks last week, this is not a good year. "Returns will be a big deal for the first quarter," says Buyer, who points out that most of the big software companies have set aside twice as much cash as they usually do to offset returns...