We suspect that the shares will probably mark time until either another bidder emerges, which seems unlikely, or the merger gets through the competition authorities.

We will have a hard time guarding him in the post. And when we sag and double-team, certainly that would open up things for other people.

I think it's a possibility, a real possibility that this time the Conservatives will win. I really believe it. I'm certainly not going to predict a majority government, but anything can happen in an election.

Our interest will be over time,

The zoning ordinance is always a work in progress and is amended from time to time and will be amended in the future. After so many years of amendments you have a document that is inconsistent. At some places it contradicts itself.

There may be some short-term disappointment today that investors are going to have to wait until the end of 2006 at the earliest for this separation to take place.