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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: asenna1 who wrote (118277)	12/20/2000 3:44:53 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Actually, I did not try to make a case, I just ticked it off as a proposed factor. I discussed it earlier with, I believe, Papaya King, but not today. The reason I thought it might be current was the earnings projection. I think it is in the background because it penalized success, and made it possible to imagine that buy- ups, merges, and strategic alliances might one day be held against you in court, even though they are normal ways of stabilizing markets. I happen to know that among content providers like Westgroup, Thomson, Elsevier, and others, there has been a lot of reconfiguration along those lines. Thus, I speculated that it was a background unease that might explain this years volatility, in part.........