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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (15016)	4/17/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: rob I	Respond to of 31646

Six 'X's. Hmmmmm. Does this mean P_ _ _ _ _ or B _ _ _ _ _ ? Thank you for keeping the information flowing. Picked up more today and am looking forward to what surprises the market holds for us between now and earnings.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (15016)	4/17/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: paul boudreau	Respond to of 31646

Great news today! As some of you may remember, I am an instrumentation and controls tech at a nuke plant. I do tasks as diverse as calibrating reactor protection equipment to replacing sump level switches(which is what I did yesterday :-( My shop just started getting involved in Y2K assessment. At this stage they are just having techs go through all our equipment lists and IDing everything that has a microprocessor in it. What they do after that I don't know yet. This is where I feel that the CD would be very valuable and cost effective for a company, no matter how you go about fixing your problem. Our 70's vintage instrumentation actually helps us since microprocessors didn't start finding there way into alot of instruments until the 80's. This problem will be a nightmare even if it does not affect critical systems. One area where we do have "high tech" equipment is our test equipment. O'scopes, chartrecorders, digital multimeters, etc. are expensive. If they don't show the correct date fine. If they stop working we need to buy new ones or fix them. Most manufacturing plants upgrade their equipment frequently and have much newer technology and it far more susceptable to the GLITCH. A lot of it won't be mission critical but will still need to be remedied in a timely fashion to keep everything running smoothly. So in summary, your local nuke should still be making electrons on 1\1\2000, but your new shiney gas burner? Who knows? The NRC is making sure that there are no slackers.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (15016)	4/17/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: Loren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Cheryl - Price = Earnings/Share * PE Ratio... right? If one is a long-term investor, he/she focuses on: a. Earnings growth; b. A PE ratio which is consistent with the growth rate; c. Price growth over the long haul. However, if one is a short-term investor, the earnings number in the equation above isn't going to change often enough, so he/she's going to have to work on the PE ratio alone. You get that through excitement in the market, persuading the market to award the stock a higher PE ratio than yesterday. Can't blame anybody for wanting the PE ratio to go up... but I guess the salient question is: What kind of person is Scott? One who focuses on earnings, or one who focuses on the PE ratio? I, for one, hope he is the former... Loren

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (15016)	4/17/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Respond to of 31646

Thank God PR is poor! CK, I was laughing at some of the posts complaining about the lack of PR. Now we get a PR that contains enough information for 10-12 seperate articles! Doesn't Chevron deserve an article by itself? BMY global rollout? Amgen? Notice that none of the "several" utilities are named. You can bet that this is an extremely sensitive topic. No utility wants to admit publicly that their nuclear plant could go on the Fritz. TAVA could be quietly capturing this entire market without us knowing. Needless to say, I started to build my position again today. The only surprise is that it did not go higher. Maybe I should be grateful that a dozen PRs weren't released. DocStone