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...television show that always revolved around the 'team' concept become the Tom Cruise vanity show anyway? By the time Woo is finally allowed to unleash his bag-of-tricks near the end, he does admittedly pull off some spectacular sequences, most notably a high-octane motorcycle chase and a deliriously over-the-top kung-fu battle. But by the time we get to this sizzle, we've already had to endure far too much fizzle...
Whether it's the snap of a football or an act of civil disobedience, the execution is in the timing. Ten minutes before the big game in Forest City, N.C., pastor Danny Jones waits ever so patiently in the press box at Chase High School. As echoes of "the home of the brave" fade away, a local radio broadcaster passes him the microphone. In the stands below, Trojan fans who have brought radios and boom boxes in anticipation of this moment tune in and turn up the volume. "Father in heaven, please bless the game," Jones intones. "Give us safety...
...pair's $660 billion in combined assets is designed to catapult the new company, to be known as J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., into an elite group of American mega-banks in competition with rivals in Europe as well as Japan. "The U.S. has the world's largest capital markets, and dollars are used everywhere," explains Ron Mandle, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "This deal helps consolidate America's role at the epicenter of global finance...
...capital or expertise to buy and sell companies, float stocks and bonds, and trade in dozens of world markets at the same time. But those that do stand to reap huge profits. Which is why the last nine months have seen a juggernaut of billion-dollar acquisitions as Chase, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Goldman Sachs and other U.S. firms increase their global presence...
...enough. The firm was already losing out on business to bigger rivals, and CEO Sandy Warner had warned employees - who own 30 percent of the stock - that the bank could face a takeover if revenues did not pick up. The merger is designed to solve that problem by combining Chase's huge client base with Morgan's investment expertise. "This is a story about growth," says Warner. "It's really that simple...