Article: MAI BASIC FAILS TO SET ASIDE INJUNCTION

Prime Computer Inc. yesterday barely hung on to a preliminary injunction that prevents hostile suitor MAI Basic Four Inc. from completing its $20-per-share cash tender offer for Prime.

The injunction is one of the few protections remaining for Prime against a pursuer that increasingly appears to be within striking distance of taking over the Natick computer company.

At a hearing yesterday in Boston, attended by Prime's president, Anthony Craig, an angry US District Court Judge A. David Mazzone told attorneys for Prime and MAI that he had fully expected to grant MAI's motion to lift the injunction against its tender offer, but changed his mind hours before appearing in court.

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