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To: oldirtybastard who wrote (109269)	6/18/2001 10:07:14 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Yeah, I'll be taking a look at JDSU down here also, maybe GLW leaps, too. JDSU certainly is the "cadillac of fiberoptic component manufacturers". Problem is, in a field as rapidly evolving as that, will I be buying next year's "cadillac of the buggy whip makers"????<NG>

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (109269)	6/18/2001 10:32:52 PM
From: AllansAlias	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

As discussed over on the chart-hugging CFZ thread, I think GLW is the prime candidate here. It may base around for a while, but it's time to start legging into long exposure. Cheers

To: oldirtybastard who wrote (109269)	6/19/2001 12:47:49 AM
From: oldirtybastard	Respond to of 436258

so this is what really happened -BG- >Taliban Say They Undermined U.S. Economy > > >ISLAMABAD (Reuters) 6/15/01 - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement has >identified the root of the U.S. economic slowdown -- their leader Mullah >Mohammad Omar's ban on opium poppy cultivation. > >"What economic analysts will not tell you is that opium... was the main >instigator of the economic miracle that (former U.S. president Bill) Clinton >achieved," said an article in the latest edition of the Taliban's official >magazine. > >It said it was no coincidence the U.S. economy faltered as Omar banned poppy >cultivation in Taliban-controlled areas in late 2000, sending prices soaring >by reducing supply to the international drug trade after years of increasing >output from Afghanistan. > >Afghan production of opium -- refined into heroin, largely in other >countries -- fell last year by 28 percent from the record 1999 production of >4,565 tonnes, three quarters of the world supply. > >"It's known in select circles, spread over an extremely narrow area, that >opium is more influential than oil in terms of its economic role in America >in particular and the West as a whole," The Islamic Emirate magazine said. > >"It's not a boulder in the mountain of global finance, no, it's fully >one-half of the entire mountain," it said, concluding that the Taliban had >triumphed in its struggle with the United States by undermining its economy