As hardlyanyofthem do immunise their stock-option programmes (by buying equal and offsetting options), and were therefore exposed to rising share prices, their true profits, on a full-cost accounting measure, were only 37% of those published, according to Smithers.
The antitrust case is already having a significant impact on the public's perception of the consumer computer business as the players are being portrayed in a light that is hardly flattering for anyofthem.
My biggest gamble was to move my family hundreds of miles from their support network and, with hardlyany warning, plunge them into a totally alien environment.
The basic problem is that there is not still enough ofthem around the country and there are some provinces in which there aren't hardlyany police forces.