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...demand for its products. The stock dropped 90% from its peak, then plunged another 65% last week. For a finale the company announced a $183 million loss and a restructuring plan that may cut 40,000 jobs. This convalescence will be neither short, pleasant nor guaranteed. INDICATORS Sultans Of Spin Months after U.S. investigations began, Britain's Financial Services Authority launched an inquiry into "spinning" - the investment bank practice of doling out shares in hot IPOs to win more business from top executives. The first sleuthing step was writing firms to ask if they routinely spin shares. How could...
...paid, there's no room for such luxuries. Even gadgets like the mass spectrometers get snazzed up for TV, with flashing lights and screen images that simply don't exist. "We like high-tech gadgetry," says Crossing Jordan's Kring. "And there are a lot of gadgets that spin, light up and make funny noises." That doesn't always go down well with real scientists. "I don't think you'll find too many criminalists who watch these shows," says criminalist Lynne Herold of the L.A. sheriff...
...watch the spooky, unlabeled videotape, and seven days later you die. So goes the urban legend that was the basis of a Japanese pop phenomenon--a movie trilogy, TV series and comics. The Ring is the American spin-off, stylishly directed by Gore Verbinski and well acted by an appealing cast, led by Mulholland Drive's Naomi Watts. She's a reporter looking for a logical explanation for her niece's death and her son's increasingly haunted state. She almost finds one, and that proves to be a problem. What she discovers is a conventional mother-child psychodrama that...
...writing for the Brown show, which was based on spin-offs of the popular television show “American Idol,” for example, the band chose to discard one proposed spoof because members wanted to be more sensitive in the wake of the Columbia incident...
...Faculty of Art and Sciences (FAS) administrators appear to be crafting a plan to impose upon faculty and students some new deadlines for course creation and selection. While details of the plan are still unknown, the spin from University Hall, as reported by the Crimson, is that shopping period won’t be going anywhere. I hope that Dean of FAS William C. Kirby proceeds with caution, or he might just be shopping for disaster...