There were no reports Monday that any fragments of the object had reached the ground or caused any damage.

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This argument has, however, failed to persuade most legislators or market practitioners, who object to insider trading on the ground that it might deter outside investors.

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Bradley's group, Palm Solutions, accounts for most of Palm's revenue but manages only 29 cents in gross profit on the sales dollar. (The software group, PalmSource, gets 91 cents on the dollar.) PalmSource gleefully licenses its fabled operating system to the likes of Sony and Kyocera, which then use it as a blunt object to beat Bradley's hardware group into the ground.

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From the video and photographic evidence, he said, he estimated the object burned up about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the ground.

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In some areas fishing crews object to MPZs, even though they are supposed to provide a breeding ground for fish stocks to recover.

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