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...companies and then staged nationwide "road shows" to tout the stock to big investors like mutual funds. The tours generated so much excitement that Netscape, which had been tentatively priced at $12 to $14 a share, went public at $28. Hambrecht's profit for co-managing the offering with Morgan Stanley: $10.6 million...
...Frank Morgan...
...despite the gush of profits, stockholders didn't see a comparable leap in their dividends. And employees took home only 2.7% more in wages and benefits during the year, the lowest increase since the government began tracking compensation in '81. Though turn-of-the-century financier J.P. Morgan argued that a CEO should never make more than 20 times the average salary of a company's employees, the ratio has escalated radically in recent years. In a sample of 292 FORTUNE 500 companies, the ratio was 143 to 1 in 1992 and is now approaching 185 to 1. Says Tower...
Anyone who has seen the movie Seven will probably agree that it was excellent. The acting was intense, the plot was captivating and the skillful directing greatly heightened the dramatic impact of the movie. Watching Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play off each other while portraying hard-nosed detectives was thoroughly enjoyable. And yet if I had known more about Seven before actually watching it last week in the Science Center, I would never have gone. After seeing it, I have come to regret that it was ever made...
There is one tiny redeeming moment at the film's end. Morgan Freeman mentions that the world is worth fighting for, but this line seems an incongruous afterthought and does little to dilute the overwhelming sense of spiritual darkness one takes away from Seven...