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...masterly stroke even for the software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal...
...where, though? Stay tuned, said Dole. "We'll flesh things out as we go along." Says the candidate's chief strategist, Bill Lacey: "Our only vulnerability would be if we don't have a viable message." It may be that the sum of Dole's rhetoric never coheres into a concrete plan of action; yet setting a tone is the requisite beginning of a "viable message," and that's what Dole was about last week...
...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...
...several demanding either autonomy or a separate Muslim state on Mindanao, has been linked to the Islamic fundamentalists charged with planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The connections have been detailed in recent weeks by Edwin Angeles, once Abu Sayyaf's military strategist, who surrendered to Philippine authorities in February after a falling out with his fellow fighters. Angeles, backed by military intelligence, has linked Abu Sayyaf with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center attack...
...Alexander, who fears that Wilson could usurp his anti-Washington, outsider mantle, reminds anyone who'll listen that Wilson pledged to finish his full term as California's Governor, "and should do just that." Phil Gramm's aides point to inconsistencies in Wilson's record--"opportunistic wafflings," says Gramm strategist Charles Black. Wilson advisers deflect such shots with blithe confidence. "Big deal," says pollster Dick Dresner. "Clinton swore he'd serve his term [as Arkansas' Governor], and no one's record is totally coherent...