As the governor's town-hall meetings have evolved into pro-tax rallies, I thought we should come out and have our voices heard.

We conservatively estimate that this business could range in size from $4 billion to $5 billion in 2001.

We are comfortable with our $39 billion-plus sales forecast for 2001, given Nortel's strong product portfolio in optics, wireless, access, and next generation switching.

We would assign a high probability to revenue of $145-$150 million and earnings per share a couple of pennies above our view. There is potential for upside as a function of robust demand for terrestrial 980nm pump laser/module shipments.

For a series of meetings, if you can reduce the no-show factor by even 1 percent, that can make a significant difference. If you're running a series of 100 dinner meetings and you can get even one more doctor to each one of them, then you've touched 100 more physicians. That has a lot of impact. Even a minimal decrease in the no-show factor can pay volumes in dividends for years to come — if, for example, those 100 doctors were to change their prescribing habits based on what they learned.

We've only got two more meetings left,