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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU)
LU 2.585+0.2%3:04 PM EST

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To: steve beckle who wrote (12494)1/9/2000 3:47:00 PM
From: stilts  Read Replies (2) of 21876
 
>As for all the anger from those claiming McGinn must've know earlier about the bad results, let me ask you, would it have mattered had he come out the first day of the quarter with the same message?<

It would have made a huge difference. Bluster is not a character trait one desires in a CEO; credibility is. Lu's proposal to increase the authorized shares for a stock split was one of the greatest headfakes in history.
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