IP: MS Coningency Planning?

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:13:33 -0800
>To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>From: "James S. Tyre" <j.s.tyre@cyberpass.net>
>Subject: MS Coningency Planning?
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>I *really* do not want to speculate on whether this is the beginning of a
>contingency plan, in the event DoJ prevails over Microsoft.
>
>      NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, the
>      world's richest man, has bought an 8% stake in Newport News
>      Shipbuilding, which supplies aircraft carriers and submarines to
>      the U.S. Navy.
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>      The purchase, disclosed Friday in forms filed with the Securities and
>      Exchange Commission, is worth $68.9 million at current stock prices and
>      makes Gates one of the shipyard's two top stockholders.
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>      The shipyard, based in Newport News, Va., employs about 17,300 people.
>      It is the nation's only builder of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers,
>      which year the shipyard earned $97 million.
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>      ....
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