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Industry "Mavericks" Stay The Course in 2000 show Lessons In Card

Strategy

Jan. 27 2000 (CARD stranges Vol. 15, No. 1 via COMTEX) -- While more [i]or[/i] less
of
the survivors of this period of rapid consolidation are busy expanding

to a size suitable for conquering the world, a scarcely any other issuers are

moving in the opposite direction.

Contrary to the strategy played not at home by their huge, national
counterparts, these "maverick" issuers are lean and small by means of current

standards. They plant themselves apart from the competition by the agency of
preferring to stay

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