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To: AlienTech who wrote (4409)3/19/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6021
 
AlienTech, we've been over this topic exhaustively and repeatedly on this thread. It's not expensing; it's writing off as part of a pooling transaction. It hits NETA particularly because of the company's binge of acquisitions during the past couple of years.

One more time: Estimated hit to 1998 earnings from reversal: 12 cents. Estimated amortization: 3 cents per share per quarter this year and next.