Word: lynching
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...billion bid by China National Offshore Oil Corp. to buy U.S. oil giant Unocal has run into stiff headwinds after Unocal's board voted to stick with an improved offer from American company Chevron. Revaluing the yuan "buys the Chinese significant political capital," says Hong Kong-based Merrill Lynch strategist Spencer White...
...Cruise is not the only celebrity on a spiritual tear. Out-there auteur DAVID LYNCH is opening his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace this week in Hollywood. Lynch, a daily practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for more than 30 years, wants to promote teaching it in schools. "It's a hellhole out there," Lynch says. "This is the way you fix it. The students start getting bright as a shiny penny. It's the home of total knowledge." And we thought we had total knowledge when we figured out who killed Laura Palmer...
TIME How long before traditional brokers like Merrill Lynch are obsolete...
...They'll never be obsolete as long as they have a focus on the client. They just have different businesses than what we are. The focus on the retail side of Merrill Lynch is truly the wealthy, person-to-person relationship. There's only so many people you can do that with. That's where an Ameritrade comes in. While the Merrill Lynches of the world go after the wealthiest of our society, the online brokers go after the mass affluent. There are 37 million households that have between $100,000 and $1 million in assets. Clearly the full-service...
...Lynch, the head prosecutor, had argued that Quinlan’s retroactive application of a March 2005 SJC decision was inappropriate...