"All the parents now, we take our kids to school by car, " neighbor Stephanie Merrifield said.

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Mr Merrifield, who would not comment on the problems at Habbo, said the investment was unrelated.

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The announcement was made at the Children's Media conference by Club Penguin founder Lane Merrifield.

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"We didn't feel it was a viable vessel, " says John Merrifield, cofounder of the boatmaker.

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Dr. Merrifield warned that the U.S. chemical industry is a primary focus for foreign industrial espionage.

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"We don't control who comes on the site but we have a lot of control over what they experience once there, " said Mr Merrifield.

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Bruce Merrifield, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs.

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Russell then worked with boatmaker Merrifield-Roberts.

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On 13 May 1997, Dr. Bruce Merrifield -- a professor at the Wharton School of Business and former Under Secretary of Commerce with long experience in the chemical industry and other high technology fields -- reiterated concerns he expressed prior to the CWC's ratification in testimony delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee then considering the Treaty's implementing legislation (see below).

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