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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (61530)	6/6/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, >>Vision and Verse surprised me a lot. << If this horse would have won I would have been sick. It's not so much that I rated him above any of the obvious horses, I didn't. But I didn't think he was too far off horses like Lemon Drop Kid, Best of Luck and Stephen got Even and I rated him above some others. Yet he was something like 55-1. I came real close to putting a token wager on him. The thing that stopped me was the fact that he backed up in the stretch a few times and the pedigree looked suspect. He looks like a comer to me. Being from the Mott barn and lightly raced I think he's going to get better. Big shame about Charismatic. As a fan I would have liked to have seen some more so he could find his place as a horse. I rarely come away empty from a triple crown series, but I did this time. Rats! Wayne

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (61530)	6/6/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

mike, i was in a meeting w/ some high up folks in my company. they posted an estimate of product demand that looked like this: 99 00 01 40 60 65 (units) then they posted our output as follows: 99 00 01 10 20 25 (units) the multiplier (1000s, etc doesn't matter for this discussion). i asked two questions. 1. what makes us believe that we are going to have a HUGE 80%+ drop in unit demand two years out and, if this pans out as PLANNED, isn't this a total disaster? 2. what makes us believe that we will be the company that supplies the extra 5 and our very capable competitors will plan for and be satisfied with 0% unit growth growth? i didn't get an answer. worse yet, i don't think what i was saying was even understood. it took me all of 2 seconds to see the impending disaster. however, i have zero faith in these "estimates" anyway, so i'm playing my job situation by ear. it just rattled me that such basic economic concepts seem to fallen on deaf ears.