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...Attorney's office intervened by way of complaint," Middlesex Co. Assistant District Attorney Adrienne C. Lynch, the original prosecutor for the case, said last week. "The cases regarding the defendants are in federal district court...
...While each were [at first] charged with state offenses, the Feds took over jurisdiction of the case," Lynch said...
...companies buying back their own shares--$50 billion worth in the past five years, according to Birinyi Associates. They are spending all this money for one reason: reducing the supply of stock will make the price go up. Charlie Clough, the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, even thinks the fall of the dollar will help the Dow reach 5000. He sees Wall Street as a Mexico for Japanese and German investors. Already, foreign buyers have begun to scoop up U.S. assets on the cheap, hence the Zurich Insurance Group's bid for Kemper last week...
...first scene is played not to the roar of the crowd, but to the roar of the sea at Black-pool, England. In a contraband exchange gone awry, we meet the disturbed Jack Parker, played by the sparkling young Brit, Lee Evans. In an apparent outtake from a David Lynch feature, Parker is left alone in the sea with a wax egg and two severed feet. Unlike a Lynch flick, "Funny Bones" will let you in on the joke, if you wait for the punchline...
...that scarcely explains how the company declined so swiftly under the gaze of a board that boasted such luminaries as famed stockpicker Peter Lynch and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth. The first sign of trouble came last summer when Agee told directors that the company expected to report a loss for the second quarter. "I raised questions about why we hadn't received a preview," Brzezinski recalled last week. His uneasiness grew several months later when "we started getting indications of a fourth-quarter loss that would be larger than anticipated--though nothing like what it finally turned...