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To: EliBenTedrus who wrote (11286)	7/22/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: IceShark	Respond to of 164684

Now I have seen spin meisters try and get everyone to ignore non-operating writeoffs even though they keep coming along every year regular as clockwork. But this is the first time I've ever seen *reported* "pro forma" eps that excludes goodwill amortization. They even put EBITA in the release! Here is an outfit that will put MU to total shame in sleaze accounting, which is pretty hard to do and still stay out of jail. Were the anals in First Call estimates excluding goodwill amortization in the guided down number? They got CNBS thinking they beat expectations. Regards, DWW