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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (38024)	10/10/2000 2:14:06 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 70976

"You like to take advantage of these situations for yourself- I have talked to many people via PM regarding this." Brian, You insulted Cary regarding his(and my) comments regarding George W. We insulted nobody. I defended Cary in a post to you. How am I taking advantage of this for myself? Am I running for office here at SI? Your propensity to PM attacks behind people's backs is now out in the open. And to boot, you have my politics all wrong. I am undecided and will choose the lesser of two evils. I dont know which one that will be yet. That, too, was clear from my earlier post. I agree with you on Gore and with Cary on Bush.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (38024)	10/10/2000 3:12:00 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

<<I think the new variable now is the shorts >I do not think this is a variable. Only about 14M shares short with 810M outstanding is not likely to cause any short squeeze. Not in AMAT, but perhaps LRCX and some others. Many smaller investment houses (small firms like $100M or so) won't touch LRCX as it is too small but AMAT is a blue chip and much larger market cap (this is a fact from first hand conversations) Also, a squeeze makes the stock go up. I'm saying some of the volitility downward can come from shorters... IF nobody is in a buying mood, then extra pressure from shorts will add to the down effect.