"We just can't let this happen, " Don Lynch, the senior vice president, responded in a conference call to the Atlanta group, Pavlo says.

FORBES: Aggressive Accounting

The banks alleged that James Folk, vice president in charge of revenue operations, revealed the threat to Don Lynch, a senior vice president reporting to Chief Financial Officer Douglas Maine.

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And don't forget Lynch.

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But one or two lucky bets don't make you into a Peter Lynch.

FORBES: Winning streak

But, as Lynch points out, oil futures don't usually trade in contango.

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"The lesson learned last time is, don't have lot of patients in your hospital unless it is absolutely necessary, and don't have too many staff, " said Bob Lynch, the hospital's CEO.

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From the advisers' prospective, "I really don't think it will do much damage to the Merrill Lynch brand, " Mr. Kostoff said.

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"We like to think we have some privacy in our lives, that we can go places that we don't necessarily want the government to know about, " said said Jennifer Lynch, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet civil-liberties group.

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Here's a radical idea, free of charge. (If you don't like it, blame my pal Herb Allison, president and COO of Merrill Lynch.) It starts with a painful premise: Rich baby boomers are not buying GM cars.

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