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To: yard_man who wrote (35431)	5/24/2000 8:05:00 PM
From: John Graybill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Corporate America is celebrating the passage in the House of Representatives of legislation that expands U.S. trading ties with China, a landmark accord that would pry open Beijing's potentially enormous markets for computers, insurance, crops and a host of other products. cnnfn.com (list of stocks to short follows later in the article:) U.S. businesses have lobbied fiercely for the legislation, with heavy-hitting backers including Motorola Inc (MOT: Research, Estimates), Intel Corp. (INTC: Research, Estimates), Microsoft Corp (MSFT: Research, Estimates), Citigroup (C: Research, Estimates), Caterpillar (CAT: Research, Estimates), Whirlpool Corp. (WHR: Research, Estimates) and General Motors (GM: Research, Estimates). Big business has spent millions on an advertising blitz in the days leading up to the vote.