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...both Harvard and Merrill Lynch, the response to the settlement was positive, but no one would discuss the terms of the agreement...
...University settled its $135 million civil suit against Merrill Lynch Thursday, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said yesterday...
...most bitterly contested part of the Treasury plan would let banks enter new fields that may be unrelated to financial services. Strong banking companies would be permitted to affiliate with anyone from Merrill Lynch to McDonald's. So-called fire walls would prevent banks from risking federally insured deposits in the new ventures. The plan would also let banks create nationwide networks of branches within three years under a law that would replace the current crazy-quilt pattern of state rules that govern interstate banking...
...that the profitability of Hollywood's studios plunged by $150 million. Moreover, runaway costs have begun to turn even some box-office hits into money losers. "I've been watching the industry destroy its profitability for more than a year," says Harold Vogel, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch. "The cost cutting, if it really happens, is a welcome move in the direction of sanity...
Twin Peaks (ABC). Has it really been less than a year since FBI agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) first heard the name Laura Palmer? After its stunning two-hour pilot episode, David Lynch's oddball soap opera wavered a bit, wafted into mysticism and dragged out its who-killed-Laura? mystery too long for some impatient viewers. But the show has retained its idiosyncrasy and its hold on the imagination...