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To: Walter in HK who wrote (6534)	4/2/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78652

Walter in HK: re: Value Line on Sundays. I used to do the same thing. Except I couldn't find the stocks you found, or if I did, I couldn't hold on to them --g--. Very interesting to me to observe old days-- walk in library get VL, no problem. Nowadays (and it doesn't make any diff. which library I go to): have to wait when I can find the book at all. And when I start to read... pages torn and missing. That's when I knew we were back to the '60's bull market. Now I'm even seeing people standing around the VL book, pointing to pages and discussing.

To: Walter in HK who wrote (6534)	4/2/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Paul Senior	Respond to of 78652

The ruling reason for CTZ is that they do, and will do, 1 of every five title insurance policies. That makes them a sustainable business. They are buying small shops for cash, and buying back their own stock. This is now in the good times. When the bad times come, they will- or could - expand their business reach even further. (They have little debt.) This then makes them viable, to my mind. Especially if the real estate market downturns come, as has happened in the past, at staggered times (Norteast vs. West vs. Southwest, etc.) Not to say stock won't drop and drop a bunch. But this company offers a lot (-pun!-g-) to a value investor. That's of course, all just IMHO.