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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill F. who wrote (74611)	1/27/2000 11:48:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Bill, I had many opportunities to become a dead fish back in the days when some of them were actually live. The sell side just isn't my cup of tea. I prefer to have only one client, which, on the buyside, is or should be the customer. On the sell side, even the best have to please at least three masters: the salesmen, the customers and the bankers. Sadly, many have also added the followed companies to that list. Besides, I've been told by sell side analysts that I have no tact. I can't believe they would say that. <VBG> They said the same thing when I was troubleshooting for the Dept. of Defense. "You cannot tell a bird Colonel that he is a crooked idiot. You have to tell him that "with all due respect there may be a small problem somewhere in his vast purview of command that no one man could possibly oversee." <g>