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Technology Stocks : EDS - Recent pullback a buy opportunity??? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Chen who wrote (1787)	9/30/2002 8:10:48 AM
From: Larry S.	Respond to of 1841

What EDS Really Stands For: Thanks to all those who sent in suggestions for what EDS stands for after I did a column Friday on the wisdom -- or lack thereof -- of selling puts. Envision the Down Side -- Eric Sallee Endless downward spiral -- Linda McDonough Earnings Death Syndrome -- Christopher Reeder Erogo Deinde Suffero (It should translate out to: Expend, then suffer) -- John Bement Exeter Errant Derivatives Strategy -- Frank Reppenhagen Excessive Downside Surprise Extraordinary Derivatives Screwup -- Rob Blakeney Easily Deflated Stock -- Darko Volaric Extremely Disappointing Stock -- Michael Garcia Earnings: Due South. -- Sarkis J. Chobanian and Marc Wilk Entirely Dopey Shenanigans -- Anthony A. Baccaro Entering Death Spiral -- Patrick Millar Equity-decimated savings (descriptive of most investors these days) -- Ian D'Costa, New York Extra Dumb Stockholders -- Frank M. Bifulco Enormous Downside Syndrome Expletive Deleted Stock -- Vahe Katros Endlessly Downgraded Stock -- Brian Koble, Economy, PA (Yes, that does make me an Economist) Earnings Decline Swiftly Equity Disappears Steadily Enterprise Denies Situation Everything Dies Sometime -- Christopher Johnston Every Director Slept Egotists Doing Swaps Egos Degraded Severely Essentially Done Sub-Rosa -- Nick Ohnell Employees Damaged Severely Enough Damn Surprises! -- David McCord Easily Duped Stockpickers. (How many fund managers made it a core holding recently?) -- Jack Smith Extraordinarily Dumb Schlemiels -- Manny Goldman Erroneous Defilade Strategy -- David Joesting For those, like me, who didn't know what "defilade" means, here's Mr. Webster: "To arrange [fortifications] so as to protect the lines from frontal or enfilading fire and the interior from fire from above or behind." And in the category of: There's always someone! I got this suggestion from these three people: EDS = Electronic Data Systems. -- Monica Jagiella, Tom Dicker, Barbara Traugot