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...their sophisticated new financial products, the exchanges still use the old-fashioned, face-to-face auction system of making trades. The leader of the investigation, Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, apparently decided that the system left plenty of room for rip-offs of commodities buyers...
...modern-day Rip Van Winkle were to fall into a deep sleep for the next ten or 20 years, he might wake up to the whoosh of trains being propelled through the air by superconducting magnets. He might observe crowds of commuters toting supercomputers the size of magazines. In average homes, he might see 7-ft. TV images as crisp as 35-mm slides and enticing new food products concocted in the lab. But if he could read the labels on those futuristic creations, he might also discover the outcome of America's struggle to remain the leading technological superpower...
Johnson could afford to be philosophical: he can now pull the rip cord on a "golden parachute" worth at least $30 million. Besides a lucrative severance package, Johnson will reap large profits from the sale of his more than 235,500 shares of RJR stock...
...fans, who, Bills general manager Bill Polian says, "identify more closely with their gridiron heroes than any other fans, except those in Green Bay," left their seats. Tens of thousands of them invaded the rain-soaked field to chant, dance and rip down the goalposts. They paraded the uprights around the field and out into the parking lots. They even deposited a chunk of one outside the private box of Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson, a Detroit businessman whom they once booed. "We'll build new goalposts," said Wilson happily, "and they can tear those down...
Welcome to Meehan Auditorium--the Slumberdome, the Palace of Deep Sleep, the House that Rip Van Winkle Built...