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To: pat mudge who wrote (29719)	12/6/1997 4:36:00 PM
From: Tom Doughty	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 31386

[Pat, Richard D, JW@KSC, SteveG, NASA, dissenters] Hi Pat: Been gone again, but before I left I noticed your sspify pick. I bought a lot, some of it below 6. Thankyou, once again. Now I must find out what it is I bought into. If it breaks 6 1/2 I'll buy some more. Hope your Christmas party is a success. Please try not to spend more than $500 on me this year! Hi Richard D: Belated congratulations on your new son!! God bless. When my cousin told her dad that she was about to make him a Grandfather, his reaction was, "Jane! You've been naughty!" Sure, she was married, but he was a PK (preacher's kid). I agree with your Asia comments. Accordingly I sold most of my Citicorp, and now of course it's shot up I-hate-to-think-how-many-points. I still feel you are correct. Hi JW Rocketman Sincere thanks for all your work and postings on Amati. You kept me from going wrong, particularly on all the CAP/DMT issues where I nearly went into WSTL at too high a price, just for the balance. I hope you made a bundle. And even if you did, you deserved to make more. We all did, except the entity. A year or more back you and I (and I think either Ray Cunningham or John Morrison) were kicking around the value of NASA spending to society at large, and was it worth it. I opined that the ratio was probably at least $7 for every $1 spent on NASA programs, but I was doing that from memory. I also mentioned a publication called SPINOFF that annually documents some of this commercialization. Here are URLs that, along with parent directories, seems to cover that. I recently stumbled onto these. You probably know all about them, but maybe Ray or John did not. spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov ctoserver.arc.nasa.gov ccf.arc.nasa.gov sti.nasa.gov Also, regarding AMTX valuation after quick look at materials: I'm afraid we're stuck with the $20 cash. I certainly thought $25 or more, and in TXN stock, would be supportable and reachable in negotiations. I think a buyer at that price or even a bit more would still clean up in the long run. But I guess it's not to happen. Among "dissenters' rights" there used to be a thing called "appraisal rights" whereby you sued for an independent valuation of the company, usually by an investment bank that the dissenting shareholders hired. Don't know this still applies, but even if it did it is almost certainly futile here, given 15 parties were initally solicited and the eventual total of 3 bids from 2 companies wound up at $20 cash, and that last one not far from the original stock bid. Hi SteveG: A note FWIW: you don't need to have the last word in every exchange. (Or do you?) I try never to miss one of your posts because they are (the early ones, anyway) heavy on informational content. But I confess I especially look forward to the exchanges that follow (with Pat or JW or whomever) where your responses become positively Clintonesque. I leave you the last word here. Good luck and Seasons Greetings, all. Pat, I'll see you on the spiffy thread. --Tom