From: Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 14:37:05 PST
Yeah, pisses me off -- after 360 days in positive territory after
buying Boeing last year, the stock tanks just before the one year
limit on short-term capital gains. Now its back to yet-another-long-
term value stock.
If Boeing engineers had stock options, this wouldn't happen.
....Roy
In message <25D0C66E6D25D311B2AC0008C7913EE0517C95@tdmail2.teledesic.com>, Dan
Kohn writes:
>[* Not the metaphor I would choose. - dan *]
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/boeing-strike.html
>
>Charles Bofferding, the union's executive director, likened Boeing's
>management to the schoolyard bully who declined to pick a fight with the
>class jock -- in this case, the machinists, the largest union at Boeing --
>"and instead they see the little kid in the corner with the glasses and they
>say, 'Here, let's slap him around a little bit."'
>
>"Well, guess what?" said Mr. Bofferding in an interview. "But what they
>don't realize is, the kid with the glasses has been taking kung fu. So watch
>out."
>
> - dan
>--
>Daniel Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com>
>tel:+1-425-602-6222 fax:+1-425-602-6223
>http://www.dankohn.com
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