Marlboro:

I agree! MRC has been a reasonable performer. Not earth shattering but, it has fulfilled its objective. Though On balance the over all performance against objectives has been at best, to date, rather dismal.

It is not my intent to be negative. It is my hope that going forward, I can find less and less reason to be critical. For that will mean both in a corporate sense as well as individual sense, there has been progress and reward. And I believe that is the objective. To date the reward component has been far too narrowly defined. In fact, in that sense, it has been actually an abusive relationship for the common shareholder!

Brian