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To: Eddie Kim who wrote (56913)	8/7/1998 9:10:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 176387

07:35 DJS July Payrolls Rose 66,000; Jobless Rate Held Steady At 4.5% 07:35 DJS July Payrolls Rose 66,000; Jobless Rate Held Steady At 4.5% WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Payrolls rose by a modest 66,000 in July, the Labor Department reported Friday, while the jobless rate remained steady at 4.5% despite the impact of the General Motors strike. The figures were generally in line with expectations. The median forecast of 21 economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and CNBC was for a 50,000 increase in July payrolls, down sharply from the 205,000 gain posted in June. Unemployment was seen holding steady at 4.5%. Payrolls are at their lowest level since January 1996, while manufacturing payrolls haven't been this low since 1982, Labor said. The department said the GM strike reduced payrolls by 140,000. At its peak, the strike left some 185,000 people out of work, including employees at Canadian and Mexican plants. As a result, the number of domestic employees affected by the strike was actually closer to 135,000. Copyright (c) 1998 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 08/07 7:35a CDT

To: Eddie Kim who wrote (56913)	8/7/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

Eddie, my point is to give you a hard time for generally siding with Compaq in all of your Compaq vs. Dell posts. You always come back and say geeez! you guys always want to turn this into a cpq vs. dell thing as if it was never your intent to make comparisons. Well, in my opinion, it IS about CPQ vs. Dell. Business is war, conquer and devour. So far, Dell is winning and CPQ is whining. I for one would love to see Dell take all of Compaq's market share over the next few years... kicking them out of the PC business all together, wouldn't you? <ggg> It's still not too late to trade in that Presario for 16 shares of Dell. MEATHEAD