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To: Elmer who wrote (141800)	8/16/2001 5:44:26 PM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

It isn't as if the microprocessor industry is any different or less ethical than any other business. I remember the words of J. Ira Harris, one of the great investment bankers of the 80's and 90's, and one of the few that had a rather good reputation for ethics. The subject of fairness opinions had come up. One rather junior associate was concerned that the hostile bid for a company was way too lowball for a reputable investment bank to give it a fairness opinion, always a legal requirement for any deal, especially a hostile deal. "You got a million dollars, we got a fairness opinion." He was only being modestly sarcastic, and he understated his fee, but he got his message across.