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The creation of what the WSJ rather slobberingly calls a "telecommunications colossus for the 21st century" may be tripped up by regulators, say all the papers.
Reporters tripped over themselves to describe the importance of the deal, saying, in order of increasing excitement: 1) it signals "convergence between old media content and the new medium of the Net"; 2) it presages more megamergers, as other companies struggle to keep pace; 3) it "marks the passage of the Internet from an exotic technology into a mass media industry"; and 4) it represents "the triumph of the Internet as the irresistible force in business."
Despite the one-day loss of almost $700 billion in stock value and the halting of trading, not once but twice, by tripped "circuit-breakers," the papers make the non-crash case in their primary reporting.
In fact, in a curiously un-Intel-like performance, it was manufacturing the chips, especially its newest chips, that tripped the company up.
In one go-round she's tripped and forced to hobble, which means she doesn't bump into the woman with the baby carriage, which means she doesn't arrive at her banker-father's office to catch the exchange between him and his pregnant lover, which means she doesn't stop her boyfriend from robbing a supermarket, which means ...