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...buggy British electronic trading system may have spurred the merger that created the world's second biggest stock exchange. The London Stock Exchange and Frankfurt's Deutsche Bourse merged Wednesday as equal partners, with a NASDAQ tie-in rendering the new iX (international exchange) the 500-pound gorilla of European markets. "This deal has been in the works for years but kept breaking down over whether the merged exchange should use the German or the British electronic trading platform," says TIME Atlantic business editor Richard Hornik. "But three weeks ago, that debate was rendered moot when the British system crashed...
...Across creator David 39 Laser's "knife" 41 "My mama done ___ me... " 42 Need a bath badly 44 Merkel of moviedom 47 Engrossed with 49 Chechen President ___ Maskhadov (Bush didn't know his name either) 51 She backs Bush 53 The ___ (TV hit set in New Jersey) 56 Frankfurt's river 57 Network on which 53-Across appears 58 ___ show (e.g., Greed or Millionaire) 59 Scholarship criterion 60 Immigrant's subj. 61 Part of R.S.V.P...
...Mainz in 1448, Gutenberg had ironed out enough of these problems to persuade Johann Fust, a goldsmith and lawyer, to invest heavily in his new printing shop. Exactly what happened behind Gutenberg's closed doors during the next few years remains unknown. But in 1455 visitors to the Frankfurt Trade Fair reported having seen sections of a Latin Bible with two columns of 42 lines each printed--printed--on each page. The completed book appeared about a year later; it did not bear its printer's name, but it eventually became known as the Gutenberg Bible...
...Washington's eye, terrorism has supplanted computer failure as the primary Y2K bug. President Clinton urged Americans to be vigilant against possible terrorist attacks. The FBI on Thursday also issued a mail-bomb alert against any unsolicited mail bearing a postmark from Frankfurt, Germany, while a man was arrested in the Bahamas after he tried to flee when questioned about suspicious equipment he was trying to carry aboard a plane. And the specter of a bomb plot by Canada-based Algerian exiles grew Thursday as a Vermont prosecutor presented evidence linking Lucia Garofalo, arrested Sunday trying to cross into...
...Stamford, Conn., Waltham, Mass.; and Washington, D.C. European offices are in Oxford, Glasgow, Paris, and Frankfurt. PRTM's Asian offices are in Toyko and Hong Kong...