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To: still learning who wrote (5762)	6/25/1999 6:34:00 PM
From: Farfel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7342

Still learning: check post #5718 --- "Year to date" is not "year to year". Clearly "year to date" is both in the title and the body of the message. It is important to read what a person says, not what you mistakenly presume or assume they mean. Here is the exact quote: "Year to date Tlabs has outperformed: Lucent 100% to 24%, outperformed Cisco Systems 100% to 25%;outperformed Erickson 100% to 46%; Outperformed Nortel 100% to 83%; Outperformed Three Com 100% to (-37%), outperformed Qwest 100% to 70%; outperformed Frontier 100% to 75%; and outperformed Williams Companies 100% to 52%." [post #5718] Really, accuracy is at the essence of any critical analysis, be it literary, financial, or legal. In law it is called: "Setting up the straw man": this is a technique in which the adversary misquotes what has been said and then defeats his own "fabricated construct" and then defeats his own misrepresentation of the other's position. In essence "still learning" you have more to learn about "basic reading skills" than financials. Or perhaps the misreading on your part was "intentional"----in that YTD and YOY are not one and the same---as you hopefully should learn. Practicing reading the YTD column in Barron's might help you to perfect both skills.