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...Fremont, California. It has also left many others gravely wounded. Dell Computer is expected to report losses of $68 million this week, its first quarterly deficit ever. Ironically, Dell, which built a $2 billion-a-year business by selling cheap, reliable computers by mail, is being done in by copycat mail-order firms offering bigger discounts...
There is also the copycat factor. Blundering though they were, the World Trade Center bombers still hit what for terrorists is the jackpot: headlines. Big, bold, worldwide headlines, which might well tempt other groups to think they could achieve the same results, call attention to their cause -- and, if they operated with a modicum more intelligence than those bombers, even escape uncaught...
...Ridge, New York. To bring the critters back, she put native grasses among her perennial flowers, planted a woodland garden, resurrected an old pond and created a wildflower meadow. Author of the new book Noah's Garden, Stein decries "the vast, nearly continuous and terribly impoverished ecosystem" consisting of copycat lawns and gardens from coast to coast. "We cannot in fairness rail against those who destroy the rain forest or threaten the spotted owl," she says, "when we have made our own yards uninhabitable...
...computer judge instances of copycat writing...
...making, the Globex system is a bid by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade to keep from losing yet another homegrown industry: futures trading. U.S. exchanges developed modern-day futures, including popular contracts based on Treasury bonds and the Eurodollar. By the late 1980s, however, copycat exchanges from Auckland to Zurich were able to establish their own futures markets by trading when Chicago was closed for the day. Last year the U.S. share of the worldwide futures business had slipped to about 50%, compared with more than...