Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time Warner shareholders must decide by Aug. 5, when the rights expire, whether to participate in the stock offer. But the company is virtually assured of selling all 34.5 million shares because such Wall Street firms as Salomon Brothers, Goldman, Sachs and Merrill Lynch, which are underwriting the offer, have agreed to purchase any unsold stock. "This deal is done," says John Reidy, an analyst for Smith Barney. "It's over...
...impolite advice in lipstick on the windshield. An hour after that, the car is sprayed with shaving cream and pelted by wet trash and rotten food. Eons later the alarm is still relentlessly screaming. By this time the police have arrived, summoned not by the alarm but by the lynch...
...Commerce Department watch list for possible retaliation because of those countries' casual treatment of property rights. In Thailand, cited as the most flagrant violator, copycat versions of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software sell for the equivalent of $50 instead of the $500 U.S. price. New movies like David Lynch's Wild at Heart, not yet available on video in the U.S., go for $4 a tape...
...nuclear power currently practical for any other firms in America, Wall Street experts argue. "The first utility that announces plans to build a new nuclear reactor will see its stock dumped," warns Leonard Hyman, who watches electric companies for Merrill Lynch. Hyman estimates that abandoned U.S. nuclear projects have generated some $10 billion of losses for the utilities' stockholders. "Investors are not quite ready to warm up to nuclear power just yet," says Hyman. "They're still recovering from their first chilling experience -- and it was very chilling." He adds, "There is no demand for new plants, because...
...secret of the transformation from group to mob: a few leaders incite the rest, knotting the rope, throwing it over the limb of a tree. The others allow themselves to be carried passively by the group purpose. Lynch mobs always armor themselves with a sense of their retributive righteousness. They also mean to exert social control by exemplary doses of terror, on the conceit that violence is the only language the victim understands...