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Show | Aum iat Amgensone shee2 9Soe ie Ba35 | Maes 2 Ey sine i ig. 2s +4 aphlebee spas a 4 4 |Comtar Cacia af 2) Admme et 01/80 | Bilao % HET F? HERE sng PHT Be eenviteBeesM3 _ ce nl fae Ga -sercses eae Pose 1ae or Foraea 3 aed 1s Last Chg|Name Last pane Ma NASDAQ. Name td July 30, 1997 The Salt Lake Tribune BUSINESS W iHit fe= B6 TRADEWINDS Compiled by Steven Oberbeck Kimball, Parr, Waddoups, Brown & Gee, a Salt Lake City- Romance Writer, Janet Dailey, day. based lawfirm, has hired Nancy Aingerasclient services director. Ainger spent the past five years serving as vice president of orga- nizational services for The Eco- nomic Development Corp. of Utah. a Nick Lovato has joined Guard- ian State Bank as a commercial loan officer at the South Valley branch. Lovato was formerly with Franklin Capital Corp. as a mar- keting manager. o J. Burton Black has beenelect- ed president of the Utah Petro- leum Marketers Association for 1997-1999. He has been in the petroleumbusiness for 11 years. vices, has appointed Rebecca Spencersenior directorofits call center operations. She previously served as director of corporate training Mortgage Center, Sandy. Crox- ford has worked off and onfor the companyfor seven years. Kohls- chein previously served as assistant to the servicing manager. Oo Gregory P. Stevens has been named the new medical director for the South Salt Lake physician region of IHC Physician Group. “Talk to me.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES— There is a reason romance novels all seem to read alike. Romance novelist Janet Dailey acknowledged plagiarizing the work of her rival Nora Roberts and blamed a psychological disorder Tuesday. American Public Power Association’s Harold Kramer-John Preston Personal Service Award. The award is given in recognition of contributions to public power through service to the APPA. Dailey said her books Aspen Gold and Notorious contain ideas and passages lifted from several of Roberts’ novels. The copying was recently discovered when Dailey got tripped up during online chats o Richard Ostler has been named vice president of the Q Lube marketing department. He joined the Salt Lake City-based company Spencer from Novell Inc., Provo, where he oO o for the disorder and have been assured that, with Greg R. Lambert has been elected an assistant vice president at First Security Bank. He will continue to serve as an operations officer in the trust department. treatment, this behavior can be prevented in the future. Dailey agreed to Roberts’ proposed terms tosettle the matter, including a paymentto the Literacy Volunteers of America,said Dailey’s publicist, Sanford (a Sheri Asmus has been named Roberts, whose current best sellers are Finding the Dream and Sanctuary, said in a statement that manager of CMG Funding Corp.'s St. George branch. She has been in the banking industry 12 years and in mortgage banking for 10 years. Bonnie Hunt May, Barbara Stringham and Donna L. Bridge have been namedloan officers at the branch. Mayhas been with the Stevens she has found other examples of plagiarism by Dai- Nielsen company since April ley, including a manuscript submitted for publication that includes passages from her earlier works. Roberts’ publicist, Kathy Onorato, characterized the plagiarism discovered so far as “only the tip of 1996. Stringham joined the company with five years’ experience in mortgage banking. Bridge has 13 years’ experiencein loan funding. the iceberg,” adding that many passages were copied word for word. Roberts said she is comparing other books by Dai- Huge ATM Networks Attack Proposal By Banking Panel to Ban Surcharges BY MARCY GORDON ‘THEASSOCIATEDPI WASHINGTON — Fighting bank's machine. Congressional investigators found in a recent report that ATM surcharges nation- legislation that would ban sur‘ges for automated teller machines, three big ATM networks said Tuesday it would bring unwarranted government intrusion months ending in February. D'Amato also questioned the wisdom of the Justice Depart- wide more than tripled in the 14 ment and the Federal Reserve for approving every merger of ATM networks since 1985, He said it had created consolidation and think these are completely separate issues.” McEwenwas joined in opposing an ATM surcharge ban by G. Hen- ry MundtITI, presidentof the Cirrus network, which is owned by MasterCard International, and John Bascom, president of Magic Line Inc., a regional network operating in the Midwest. A surcharge ban, which would chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who has proposed the surcharge ban, said banks’ practice of making double charges on ATMtransactions hurts consum- And he accused Visa USAInc., ownerofthe Plus network, of being inconsistent regarding sur- ers and“threatens the survival of smaller banks and credit unions.” Representatives of small banks charges and favoring them when it is in its corporateinterest D'Amatoproduced a Visa bro- Large banks also are opposed to D'Amato’s bill chure for consumers that criti- gerous precedent of the federal testifying at cizes the practice by merchants of governmentsetting prices at the local level,” said Sen. Richard hearing agreed, to switch their accounts to a bigger bank rather than pay sur- charges for using its ATM “The effect of surcharging will be to kill off small-bank competi- tion because customers have grown accustomed to and depend on the convenience of ATM machines,” said Thomas Caron, president of Easton Cooperative Bank in Kaston, Mass. Surcharges paid to the bank operating an ATM come on top of fees many customers pay their own bank when Sas another hurt competition, imposing surcharges on creditcard purchases. Such charges “unfairly single out [credit] cards from other forms of payment,” the brochure says. Anthony McEwen, “It was only a dream, just as you said.” “You need to talk aboutit. I'll listen.” “I don’t need anyone,” sheinsisted stiffly. "m not leaving until you tell me about it.” — Notorious. Qo “Butit was only a whisper of a kiss, the brush, retreat, brush of mouth against mouth.” — Sweet Revenge. “His mouth brushed her lips in a mere whisperofa kiss, lightly rubbed andretreated, again and again.” — Notorious. a “Whateverskill he had, whatever patience he’s developed, he would use tonight.” — Sweet Revenge. “Tonight demanded all the skill and patience he possessed."” — Notorious. Brokaw. The amountwas notdisclosed. Hepractices internal medicine at saying many customers aredriven “Talk to me, Eden.” “It was more than that.” His fingers brushed her cheek, pushing back a strand of hair. She closed her eyes at the contact. the lung-cancersurgery of her husband. “I recently learned that my essentially random and nonpervasiveacts of copying are attributable to a psychological problem that I never even suspected Thad,” Dailey said. “I have already begun treatment Kohischein — Sweet Revenge. “T can only apologize to Nora, whom I've considered a friend, and to my readers for any pain or embarrassment my conduct has caused,” the 53year-old authorsaid in a statement from her home in in part from the cancer deaths of two brothers and Croxford hereyes. “Youtalk, I'll liste “I don’t need anyone.” “I'm notgoing awayuntil you talk to me.” She kept her gaze fixed on the water glass. Roberts, in a telephone interview, called Dailey's admission “. . . upsetting.Everyone has said they have neverseen anythinglike this,” she said. “I don’t wantthis to be a slap in the face of the whole romance genre.This is one writer.” Theplagiarism tookplace in the early 1990s while Dailey was under professional and stress, James Gault has been appointed director of sales for Salt City Records, Salt Lake City. He has 15 years’ experience in marketing and sales of record-management systems. “Tt was just a dream, as yousaid.” “You're hurting.” He touched her cheek. This time she didn’t jerk ara only closed with readers. Branson, Mo. managed the marketing activities of Netware, the company’s computer-networksoftware division. the IHC Health Center in Holla- and restrict consumers’choices. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., Excerpts comparing Janet Dailey’s 1996 erts book SweetRevenge, published in 1989: Ainger Power Agency and power board chairman for the Hyrum City Power Department, received the oO Deena Croxford and Irene Kohlschein have been promoted to loanclosers at Mountain States @ Comparingthe Text romance novel Notorious and the Nora Rob- Reece D. Nielsen, chairman of the board of the Intermountain Qo Teltrust Inc., a wholesale provider of telecommunicationsser- Admits to Copying Colleague a executive vice president of the Plus network, had just defended the ATM surcharges in testimony. Visa opposes credit-card surcharges but allows banks to levy ATM fees, D'Amato contended, because banks are members of the Plus consortium. McEwencountered, “These are very different businesses e be tantamount to government price controls, “would be extremely dangerous,’ Bascom said, The proposal “would set a dan- Shelby, R-Ala, “If weset the price on the service and convenience of ATM machines, how long willit be before wesetthe price ona loaf of breadat the local market?” Shelby said the issue also touched on states’ rights because 15 states have enacted laws orissued regulations allowing ATM surcharges, They are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming ¢ ley to determine the scope of the copying and is concerned about “bringing an end to this disturbing pattern of plagiarism in a way that best serves the interests and integrity of the writing community.” Dailey has written 93 books over two decades. Her sales, which have been sold in 98 countries and 19 languages, have surpassed 200 million copies. Harper Collins Publishers in New York agreed to discontinue sales of Notorious,said Roberts’ lawyer, David Hashmall. It wasn’t known how many copies of Notorious were sold. Aspen Gold was released four years ago and is no longerin print. Romance novels are a $1 billion-a-year industry. They accountfor more than 80 percent of the mass- marketfiction titles published each year, according to the Book Industry Group. The was no big deal to 47-year-old Ja- nice Johnson, who reads Roberts’ romance novels, “It's hard to steal ideas for those things. All the story lines are the same. Only the names are different,” she said with a shrug. 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