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To: Night Writer who wrote (96620)	3/28/2002 2:59:55 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Hmmmmm... I missed it by one day. I think that MC said .01 and the consensus is for break even. In retrospect it is easy for me to see that last Q's company news stating that CPQ would beat the estimate, followed up by a very early earnings release date and all of MC's hoopla was nothing more than a ploy and that the better than expected results were more than likely attributable to creative accounting and inventory manipulation. This Q could be a disaster. El