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...Democrats love to hate. But Smaltz has the distinction of making even the most neutral lawyers argue that Attorney General Janet Reno should think twice before triggering any more such appointments. Smaltz was asked to determine whether former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy took favors from companies, including chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods, that had business before his department. But after spending more than $9 million, Smaltz has compiled a record that shows the perils of prosecutorial passion. Last week he suffered his most serious rebuke, when a federal judge granted a new trial to convicted Tyson lobbyist Jack Williams. Reason...
...lines and switches out from these utilities and as stand-alone new networks to offer alternative service in key markets where demand for state-of-the-art data, long-distance and local calling was high. Similar deals were rolled out through the rest of 1996. ICG signed with Midwest giant American Electric Power to offer communications in Columbus and Canton, Ohio. Cascade, a Westford, Mass., company, will supply frame-relay devices to ICG's burgeoning Northern California network, allowing the Bay Area's techie firms to avoid Internet overload. Additional networks are building in the Southeast...
...spin-off companies between 1965 and 1990, on average, rose 76%, vs. a market average of only 43%, over three years. Why? Often spin-off companies become more focused, and because they are smaller they tend to have greater ability to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, there is little evidence that giant mergers create great wealth for shareholders. Just ask AT&T. It paid $7.4 billion for NCR Computer in 1991 and soon gave up on the acquisition, spinning it off to shareholders as part of another split, this one three ways, last year. So now somebody wants to put Ma Bell...
...fall released a disc called Barbie Fashion Designer that was a runaway best seller, proving once and for all that if the pitch is right, the girls will play. "There's always been an interest in marketing for girls," says Suzanne Groatman, children's software buyer for the retail giant CompUSA. "Barbie just exploded the market. People are looking at this year as the time to launch on the coattails of that traffic...
ITHACA, New York: Visions of the moon as a giant refueling station for future space missions evaporated as a team of scientists said that, contrary to a December report, there's no evidence of ice there. Using new radar images from Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, astronomers from Cornell University determined that what the Defense Department's Clementine space probe showed as waves of frozen water is instead merely the rough surfaces of impact craters. If true, the news could mean a setback for space explorers hoping to use the ice to produce hydrogen and oxygen, the main components...