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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52282)	3/16/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: TheStockFairy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Why buy the pig when you can rent the pork short term risk free? My grandmother used to make a good bupkes sandwich using syrup, cloves and saltines. Of course we had to eat it blindfolded but we didn't know the difference, we never had a real sandwich before.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52282)	3/16/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB: Thought you might enjoy the Times' take on the E.U. the-times.co.uk Fault lines of Europe "...There is a grander way of explaining events in Europe. Carolingian Europe, represented by the likes of Jacques Delors, Helmut Kohl and François Mitterrand, is giving way to a Europe more concerned with good-housekeeping than compelling vision. The Emperor Charlemagne governed with an itinerant court and maintained subordinate courts in Neustria, Aquitaine and Lombardy. Each of 300 counties had its own imperial lieutenants. There was a central currency and a huge, swollen bureaucracy dependent on favours and bonded together by inter-marriage. The European Community, as it developed in the 1970s and 1980s, took on a Carolingian colouring with a Christian (Democratic) leadership and legions of staff paid much to do little. The old joke about a visitor gazing up at the Berlaymont building and asking: "Who works there?" - answer: "about 20 per cent of the inhabitants" - probably had a 9th-century equivalent..."

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (52282)	3/17/1999 9:17:00 AM
From: valueminded	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike: Am evaluating a couple of oil service companies you have liked in the past for initial positions - FLC and TDW. It would seem that with the recent slew of debt offerings from FLC, that they may have more serious issues than appears on the surface. Also, I do not like their balance sheet anywhere near as much as I like TDW. Whats your take ? Also, have you taken a look at angly ? It appears to have a lot of tie ups with dbrsy - same chairman on both. If so, what do you think thanks.