Investors believe it is simply not acceptable to be environmentally irresponsible.

We are safer, but we are not yet safe. That's simply not acceptable.

purely and simply fiscally irresponsible.

Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transitory period,

Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transitory period.

We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.