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The Motley Fool March 23, 2004 David Forrest	Play Detective With Your Stocks Be ready to ask the important questions. Whenever one of your companies reports new fundamental information, it's time to get out your magnifying glass and prepare to ask tough questions. The answers will make the difference between your success or failure as an investor.
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Registered Rep. October 8, 2002 Rick Weinberg	To Improve Profitability, Merrill Curtailing Trading of OTC Issues. A Time to Buy Small-Cap Issues? "With fewer players, that means there will find more inefficiencies in that part of the market."
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The Motley Fool December 19, 2003 Whitney Tilson	2003 Report Card At the turn of each year, the author owns up to his advice from the previous year. Bad calls? He's made a few. Great picks? He's had those, too. Today, he files his 2003 report card.
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The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Seth Jayson	Getting Foolish With Graham Benjamin Graham loosens up his tie and his standards to lay out a strategy for finding stocks for the "enterprising investor." Does screening by his numbers yield anything interesting? You bet.
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BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 David Henry	Earnings: What To Listen For This time out, revenue growth will have more impact than cost-cutting on stock prices.
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