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To: TLindt who wrote (2062)	2/27/1998 7:25:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Respond to of 8545

TLindt, The same thought had occured to me about a direct rebuttal to analysts comments. Some observations / opinions follow. Readers can skip this post if they want. 1) In the past when I have an analyst's comments directly rebutted in a public forum; the analyst community has closed ranks around the analyst in question and punished the stock. 2) The lemming factor may be in play. So many company managements over the years have tried to cover up failings that analysts smell smoke when these disagreements are aired. Also, you don't want to be the last analyst to downgrade/warn your cliental after the stock has dropped 50 plus percent. 3) The way this entire thing was handled, downgrade 2 weeks before conference, no mention in BARS website indicates there is something more that a difference of opinion between CKFR management and BARS analyst. 4) Mr. Whipple is the missing shareholder from a buyout that I was trying to identify who was selling. Thank you BB. Why did CKFR want that CHARMIN anyway?