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To: Paul Senior who wrote (12147)	6/21/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Handspring raises $200 million in IPO. A $3 billion market cap that is dwarfed by Palm's $90 billion IPO!!! Experts project 32 million handheld PC's to be sold by 2003... But despite the new competition, the market has huge growth potential, analysts say. Dataquest says global sales for hand-held computers would jump to 32.5 million units in 2003 worth an estimated $7.2 billion, from 8.2 million units in 1998. Much of the increase will come from the use of hand-held devices linked to the Internet by wireless connections. siliconinvestor.com Ausdauer

To: Paul Senior who wrote (12147)	6/21/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Respond to of 60323

Paul Senior, those are very good points -- the discipline needed to make a regular dividend payment and the need for consistency in whatever policy is adopted. No prudent investor would risk everything in the portfolio on growth stocks. For example, I suggest combining stocks like SNDK with WRE (Washington Real Estate Investment Trust), which has increased its dividends every year for the last 34 years and provides a yield in excess of 7 percent, while maintaining its rating as one of the five most conservatively managed real estate trusts (i.e., with the lowest debt levels). If nothing else, a stock like WRE provides a convenient safe haven when growth stocks look too high priced.