With significantly lower customer demand we are unable to support our recent levels of employment, and we have been reducing our work force at many sites.

We expect the supply-demand imbalance to continue through calendar year 2000 and into 2001.

In addition, we will implement a plan to balance our capacity and capabilities as we prepare the organization for a re-acceleration of growth.

Investors are cautious as the main theme this week is earnings in the United States in the first half and those from major Japanese companies in the second half.

The Iraq war was President Bush's big mistake. The whole world is against him.

The Iraq war was US President Gorge W. Bush's big mistake and the whole world is against him. Iraq must decide its own affairs.