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...show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest's search for God. He claims that the attacks, branding the show's two Jewish executive producers "Godless," are anti-Semitic. As of last week, about eight sponsors had begged off. For now, ABC and Disney are standing behind the show, but if the ratings don't improve, last rites may have to be administered. Says producer David Manson: "We all understand that in the end this show has to deliver an audience...
SOLD. SUE, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever recovered, to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; at an auction in New York City. The winning bid of $8.4 million was financed partly by McDonald's and Disney. DIED. JEROME LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...
...power, whenever an industry bellwether makes the move, others tend to fall into line. US West was the first among telecom companies, in 1994; eight others have direct purchase now. Texaco got the ball rolling in oil five years earlier; now you can own Chevron and Mobil that way. Disney's move to reinstate direct purchase most likely will have influence outside its industry as well. CEOs of all stripes will probably conclude that it must have good reason--beyond the p.r. pop--for the flip-flop...
Many were convinced even before Disney's change of heart. The number of companies with direct-purchase programs has doubled in the past 12 months, to 330. Eleven of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones industrial average have such programs. "Look for 20 Dow stocks to have them by the end of next year," says Charles Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor, a newsletter based in Hammond, Ind., that reports on direct-purchase and dividend-reinvestment programs. Just because a company offers stock for direct purchase doesn't make it a great investment. But it's a nice edge...
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