An interesting paragraph from street.com.
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First, let's establish something. These "to be sure" paragraphs are a staple of the current copy desk of the Journal. Have been for years. They know it; I know it. If we were to do a textual analysis of all Intel (Nasdaq:INTC - news) stories for the last decade, you would find a version of the following, all in or around paragraph four: "Intel's great numbers come at a time when rivals are stepping up the pressure on the chip giant on both the high and low ends, threatening the dominance Intel has enjoyed." Or, "Intel's business, while strong, may not be up to the challenges of rivals" -- then insert, AMD (NYSE:AMD - news) , Motorola (NYSE:MOT - news) , Cyrix, IBM (NYSE:IBM - news) , Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) , Sun Micro (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) , Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) -- "that have the backing of important personal computer makers" -- insert another group.
Tim
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