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To: nihil who wrote (83568)	6/16/1999 4:38:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

nihil, Re: Intel took a $475 million writeoff Did that gone forever or being 'transferred' back later ? I understand that sometimes these writeoff is done on a worst case scenario situation but the final outcome may not be as bad(like bad debt in bank?). Gary

To: nihil who wrote (83568)	6/16/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: John Hull	Respond to of 186894

Nihil, The thing I always found amusing about my B-school experience was how a room full of twenty-somethings could diagnose all the strategic errors made by big company (my favorite was the IBM discussion) in a 90 minute class session and conclude how obvious and simple the right answers were (in hindsight). Andy will take the mea culpa now, but I'll tell you as a person who was right there in the room with Barrett and Otellini when the CNN camera crews showed up in our lobby, the answers are seldom obvious. jh