We are a successful growth company and are always looking for new opportunities. We believe Southeast Kansas represents a significant untapped market with potential for significant growth.

It's still a very fluid situation. We are watching the legislative process very closely.

As we've said from the beginning, we're in this to win, and we think our decision [yesterday] to form a united front will go a long way toward helping to accomplish that goal.

We're simply supporting an initiative that has a better chance of winning.

He's not getting the kind of diversification he thinks because they're all in large company growth, ... If he held small company funds or value funds or foreign, he'd have wider diversification, and far lower risk.

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.