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Baseball is back, and the new season is full of promise. We at Dartboard will be watching closely as Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. chase Roger Maris' home run record, the Milwaukee Brewers get acquainted to the National League and the Yankees look to justify their astronomical payroll with a return to the World Series...
...biggest offender is the act of typing itself. We just were not made for it. Typing is counter-evolutionary. We evolved to chase cheetahs and bounce babies and roam free and use a variety of muscles, not sit for hours a day (or night) and overwork our weakest muscles by typing...
...scaled the Swiss Alps and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But his loftiest goal is to lead NationsBank, the Charlotte, N.C., company he has run since 1983, to the summit of American banking. Through more than 50 acquisitions, McColl has turned NationsBank into the third largest U.S. lender (behind Chase Manhattan and Citicorp), with branches in 16 states and $316 billion in assets. And NationsBank stock, which has swelled to $65 billion in total value, makes the bank No. 1 in market capital. "In most of life's endeavors," declares McColl, 62, "you are either growing or dying...
Just last week the American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Stock Market confirmed that they are exploring a merger, likely to cost several hundred jobs. For different reasons, recently merged Salomon Smith Barney is cutting as many as 1,500 positions. Chase Manhattan, after combining with Chemical Bank in 1996, is laying off about 3,000. The Swiss Bank Corp. merger with Union Bank of Switzerland has prompted a flood of pink slips in New York City. There's been selective pruning at the merged Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover. And since Asia tanked, international firms, including NatWest Securities, J.P. Morgan...
...year posted record pretax profits of $12.2 billion. More work. More profit. Relatively few people. Sound familiar? Wall Street hadn't been totally left out. Its firms have been merging practically forever, but seldom on such an extensive scale, where even giant Merrill Lynch might be bait for, say, Chase Manhattan. In a bull market, and with consolidation running wild on the Street, brokerages are good stocks...