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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18974)	5/11/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Respond to of 24154

would you like to tell us ignorant fools what the heck "markiung real estate to market" is? Here's my two cents: "Marking real estate to market" just means carrying the real estate assets on your books at current fair market value instead of cost. It should not effect income or other return measures in an absolute sense, but if the real estate market is really depressed and real estate is a large percentage of your assets, it might make your percentage return on assets go up. ;) BTW, here's a little tidbit from Yahoo: Monday May 11, 6:12 pm Eastern Time "Strong likelihood" of Microsoft case Thursday WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - There is a ''strong likelihood'' the Justice Department and between 11 and 18 states will announce a coordinated antitrust action against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT - news) on Thursday, sources said Monday. ''Things are moving toward some action,'' one of the sources said. ''The strong likelihood is this week and Thursday is most probable.'' Eleven states are hammering out the last few areas of agreement. Two other states are likely to join them and five others are considering signing on, one of the sources said. Some but probably not all of the states will be represented in person in Washington when the coordinated action is announced, the source said. ''There is no need for them to be physically there,'' the source said. The case would be a broad, new case alleging unfair competition by Microsoft.