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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anonymous who wrote (7246)	4/13/1999 3:26:00 AM
From: David C. Burns	Respond to of 21876

LUCENT is one company that keeps getting bad press from all sides whenever there is the slightest reason to dish it out. It may be a dislike for anything that has a genetic line to old AT&T. Before the spin-off of LUCENT and NCR...when Bob Allen was running old AT&T...the press and the media enjoyed hammering on him. =SNIP= Some companies hardly ever have to suffer anything negative appearing anywhere. I don't know when I have ever seen anything written that was bad about GE. That company just goes on forever. 1) Whatever Bob Allen's accomplishments may have been, he stayed way past his time of effectiveness and deserved every negative thing ever written about him - witness what has happened to AT&T since Michael Armstrong replaced him. 2) GE gets a lot of (well-deserved) bad press for polluting the Hudson River and elsewhere, monopoly practices in the industrial diamond industry, and other fields. Nevertheless, the CEO is a genius and notwithstanding some unethical practices, GE's financial performance has been a thing of beauty. 3) Stop Whining. 4) GO LU!