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To: Big Bucks who wrote (9616)	10/26/1997 10:20:00 AM
From: Scott D.	Respond to of 70976

Sales by geographical region: sec.gov Three Months Ended Six Months Ended April 27, April 28, April 27, April 28, 1997 1996 1997 1996 -------------------------------------------------- <S> <C> <C> <C> <C> North America 39% 32% 37% 35% Europe 14% 15% 19% 18% Japan 15% 23% 15% 22% Korea 11% 14% 9% 11% Asia-Pacific 21% 16% 20% 14%

To: Big Bucks who wrote (9616)	10/26/1997 11:26:00 AM
From: Big Bucks	Respond to of 70976

Folks, this is a game, you just need to understand the rules/strategy. The game of stocks is to make as much money as possible using your current financial position to leverage your net worth. The same goes with the big boys who own and manage their respective companies. It is in their best interest, knowing market fundamentals after a stock run up and split, to allow the stock to drop in value over the short term (since they have 2x their initial investment) and recover the shares unloaded as a company buy back at cheap prices. This buy-back serves to reduce the number of shares available (which were purchased cheaply) and which allows the stock to stabilize at lower prices until the market/sales fundamentals start driving the stock price higher. This is a cyclic "manipulation" that occurs in most large stocks on a high growth curve. Lets face it, that is why the insiders are always rich, they make the rules and deal the cards, we are simply players of the game playing against a stacked deck. The idea is to know the deck is stacked against us and to do what the "dealer" does, he won't lose, but someone has to. Moral of the story is "Do what the Dealer does, not what the dealer says". Standard Disclaimer, Just my opinion, I could be wrong. (Yea. right!) BB