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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (36491)	8/9/2000 9:59:06 PM
From: Demosthenes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Mephisto, <<"Upstream concerns"? If this analyst understood AMAT, and the semi-industry, he would make sensible comments in plain English so that everyone would understand what he meant.>> One might conclude Fitz is saying he doesn't know exactly what the upstream, i.e., future holds (assuming he's not trout fishing) . It's a rhetorical device that allows him to say something true--we don't know the future--while being somewhat devious by shirking his responsibility to detail his assumptions within a brief, factual and cogent argument. We don't put up with that kind of crap around here, which is why I like this thread so much. D