Now: How can Pit or anyone else say what the numbers should be? Unless you are privy to the internal workings of GTE, there isn't a dog's chance you could make a defensible prediction as to future numbers. Any guess has to be tempered by the guesser's bias, hope and optomism level, no rational basis for any guesses by those of us outside the pale, and that includes PIT, who is fun to read but, don't let him date your sister.