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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (42714)	5/17/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

<<<"A co. can have flat earnings (DELL's have grown, but not to the extent that they have appeared to), use those earnings plus borrowings to buy back shares, thus making it appear that earnings are growing. Meanwhile, what is really going on is comparable to a co. having flat earnings and paying out dividends w/ borrowed money, would you pay 60x earnings for such a co? As DELL's mkt cap gets larger and larger, it will be increasigly harder for DELL to buy stock and "manipulate" their earnings higher in a meaningful way." I have italicized those sections I referred to. Nowhere did you say that Dell enjoyed very real and rapid growth.>>>> Chuz, either we're engaging in an excercise of making you look foolish or you honestly need an eye exam? You included the portion I was speaking about? I don't understand what in the world you are reading? Are my psots getting translated into some foreign language after I post them to this board? (or perhaps you honestly misread it for the same reasons I cited-- ie-blinded by your own views--) There it is from the very paragraph you cited: "A co. can have flat earnings (DELL's have grown),"