Excellent answer and will use this feature often!!!!!

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The reference to the Merrill Lynch materials was very helpful as well.

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Thank you for the comprehensive response. I have not been able to
research all of the info yet. I am satisfied with my first experience
with GA.

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Hey Omni!
I'm finally back in the saddle here, probably with a few less brains
cells because of our problem with paint fumes in the house. (I hope
they weren't cells from the frontal lobes!)
Thanks for your contribution here; it's a good start, and a very
interesting conclusion, one that every good campaign manager
understands innately. It's quite a trick though, to appeal to people's
emotions AND their sense of integrity . . . and it seems to me that an
election in times like these is a kind of litmus test of the national
psyche.  I wish we had a way of gauging many more complex indices (. .
. way beyond I.Q.) of our society as a whole, but that seems to be
beyond the scope of humans because our emotional drivers are so in
control!
Speaking of drivers, if it were an option, I would choose to walk over
either driving  or flying!
Anyway, thanks for your contribution and I think the conversation will
continue . . .  below . . .
five cheers!
ts

Thanks bunches Omni...

This answers my question.
Its great to see that so many people from all over the world come here.
Regards,

Steph53

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I appreciate your willingness to go beyond the normal bounds of
research to shed light on my somewhat obscure question. Thanks

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I found the answers as ambiguous as I anticipated, but they had the
information I needed. Thanks.

This answer didn't answer my question, but in fact clarified it in a
way showing that it would very difficult to answer.  It was an
educational answer, but didn't attempt to give a numerical answer. 
That would be pretty hard - but isn't that right up Google's alley?

Great, Omni ...

And very many thanks for the further reading.

You certainly made it look VERY easy but Gottverdammich - without
checking -I had convinced myself that one of our esteemed German
colleagues would have been needed to suss this one out.

So often when I search for German words and phrases I get tons of
references in German. Surely, it's not asking too much for complete
standardisation throughout the word? Gottverdammich this is 2004.

My thanks also to the Great Answerfinder ... I shall certainly check out The Times.

I find it very painful to scrutinise The Times of yesteryear because
of the prices then and the price today. And THEN The Times was
choc-a-bloc with interesting stuff but now?

All the Best to you Both

Bryan

Excellent and thorough answer -- links to the two backgrounders
particularly interesting and helpful for my current project. Thanks!

Very helpful and thorough

The answer was well beyond what I expected.  It was very complete and
cited sources.  If all of your researchers are this good, I will use
the service more.  Thank you.

Excellent research, complete answer with references, and timely given. Thanks!

Omnivorous-ga...what can I say, I've seen some of the help you've
provided in the past and you are an incredible resource.  I appreciate
the help.  I especially like the Excel work.  I'm a big fan of Excel
and the tables make comprehension much easier.  Outstanding work!  I
suspect I'll be using yout talents again in the future...

Cheers

Omnivorous-
Merci beaucoup pour votre assistance!
et
Thank you for your help!

We plan on having a wonderful time and I will update you on what we end up doing:)

Top notch researcher. Answered in a timely manner and gave me info I
would have never found on my own. thanks for such a great job

Thanks!

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For some reason, I did not get an e-mail letting me know that I had an
answer to my questions.  Might have been my span filter.  What URL do
I need to add to my white list?

Just what I was looking for.  Thanks for the quick answer!

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Thank you!

Thank you for your help and answering my question so fast :-)

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THANK YOU SO MUCH...I R3ALLY APPRECIATE  YOUR RESEARCH...THE ANSWERS ARE

VERY HELPFUL...HOWEVER I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IN DOUBLE CHECKING SOME OF THE

FIGURES BY LOOKING UP EACH STOCK MENTIONED ON THE FINASNCE.YAHOO.COM....

THE PERCENTAGES WERE WAY OFF...FOR EQUIX(ACTUALLY RETURNED ONLY ABOUT 500%....

AND RATE(ACTUALLY RETURNED ONLY ABOUT 200%)..ANDF A FEW OTHERS....

HOWEVER IN SPITE OF THAT MOST OF THEM WERE CORRECT..AND THE INFORMATION

IS ESTREMELY USEFUL FOR ME...I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK....

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR HELPING ME..IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT THOROUGH RESEARCHERS

ARE AROUND AND ABLE TO HELP!!!!!!

omnivorous----top-flight answer!  Exactly what I needed.

Separately, your mention of Washington brought to mind a story from 15
years ago.  I flew into Yakima, Washington.  The guy who ran the local
flying service/gas-up was 80+ years old.  He showed me an original
flight "permit" signed by Orville Wright himself.  It was license
number 42...as in less than 50 pilots in the country.  If you ever get
to Yakima, look him up.  There's only one like him.

Thanks again for the great info!
ron

Ok. Thanks!

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I did not receive all the information that I needed. I needed publicly
traded companies that had already emerged from bankruptcy and not a
list of companies that I had to look up to see if they were publicly
traded and if they did emerge from bankruptcy.

Outstanding work. Very helpful.

Thanks. 95% is what I was looking for. A perfect score would have been
to find the data of all the indexes back from January 1990. I'm
satisifed overall.

Omnivorous: Thanks for the superb work. Sorry to be slow with the
inevitable five stars.

Thanks!