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CHICAGO — Top executives at United Continental Holdings Inc. usually don’t field questions about 1980s Matthew Broderick films during conference calls to discuss the airline’s quarterly profits.
But they did during a recent earnings call.
“I can’t help but think of that scene from ‘War Games,’ where they couldn’t shut the computer off,” said Jamie Baker, a stock analyst from JPMorgan Chase, referencing the 1983 movie about a military supercomputer that takes over and nearly starts a nuclear war. “My question is, what happens if the cutover doesn’t go as planned?”
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