The interview may have violated securities laws because it included discussion of company information not included in the offering prospectus.

According to the offering prospectus, Saks had a net loss of $36.1 million in its 1995 fiscal year on sales of $1.69 billion.

At the time, the offering prospectus predicted that Premiere would make a profit by 1992.

The knapsack full of last year's initial public offering prospectuses.

In its offering prospectus, the company said it continued to have discussions with various parties about a joint venture in its entertainment subsidiary.

Embedded in the cube is a reproduction of the offering prospectus.

But conditions in the initial public offering market were bad and the offering prospectus was pulled.

According to the offering prospectus, total box-office revenue for movie theater owners since 1965 has grown at a compound annual rate of 6 percent.

Hundreds of spaces in the offering prospectus were left blank.

Mr. Kindleberger might have been right, but the story told in the company's offering prospectus was not one that would probably attract many investors.