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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (704833)	9/29/2005 1:44:37 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You don't know much, do you?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (704833)	9/29/2005 1:52:43 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are right, Tom. You know, after reading all I can about the Frist case it puzzles me why he did not do what so many executives do in situations where they want to make a change in investment direction but avoid any appearance of inside dealing. Simply make it clear to the trustee of the blind trust that, in that person's discretion, the holding or holdings should be sold off in a consistent pattern over a long period of time, regardless of price or market conditions. The Trustee could then set up the old 10% sold on the 12th trading day of each month until 100% of the shares are gone. Done all the time...clean and virtually unassailable, as the stock will go up and down during the period and at least half the stock will be sold five months or more out, avoiding any claim of short term market knowledge. I don't really know that Frist intended to do anything wrong (I really don't know!), but he could have avoided all this so easily....especially as he did know more about the trusts than he claimed to.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (704833)	9/29/2005 2:01:19 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Mr. pro-death lobby