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To: Q. who wrote (934)	10/27/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3661

John, At a quick glance, it looks like $8.9M of the $9.4M loss are one time events implying an operating loss of only $0.5M. Given today's conditions, what did you expect? Even if the inventory writedown is included in Operating results, shouldn't it best be allocated over several quarters rather than charged entirely to the last one? While I'm less optimistic about MTSN's short term outlook, I wouldn't have described today's results as "ugly". Am I missing something? Ian.