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...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...
...Merrill Lynch yesterday, Vice President for Corporate Communications William Clark said in a prepared statement, "Merrill Lynch is pleased that it has been able to settle the litigation with Harvard...
Neither Clark not Merrill Lynch's lawyers would discuss the terms of the contract...