Tom Brandt recaps from the NY Times


 From the NY Times:

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Hewlett-Packard Beats Forecasts

May 21, 2003
By LAURIE FLYNN


  A YEAR after its merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard
posted fiscal second-quarter earnings yesterday that beat
Wall Street's estimates despite continued weakness in
technology spending.

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"They blew the cover off the ball," said Jay P. Stevens, an
analyst with the Buckingham Research Group.
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I hate when people use sports analogies and them get them wrong.  The
correct phrase is 
"They HIT the cover off the ball"

199 entries in yahoo search for hit
  1 entry   in yahoo search for blew

See also: http://www.enlexica.com/sp/bb/SP-BB-EQ-BL.htm

Way too much time on my hands.
Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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