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To: arun gera who wrote (1992)	12/16/1997 5:53:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3506

Arun and Skip, this sounds like the Ron Brown Memorial Program. I also think you are seeing what a politically connected industry, GPS, can do with a sympathetic administration -- help build a new market. This is an Al Gore type issue, and he and Charlie Trimble are apparently on a first name basis. Speaking of political connections, Trimble just hired a lobbying firm, Conkling Fiskum & McCormick, to work on a legislative extension of federal tax credits for R&D. David PS -- DATM touched an intraday low of $12 today, a new yearly low (down from a high of $49.50 a few months ago). Competitors FEI and TRMB are doing well. Something more than a timing device market "overreaction" is going on here, we just don't have the specifics yet.