61 announcement of our decision to merge, we had a meeting at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut of our shareowners and got the overwhelming authority in vote from our shareowners to conclude the merger and so it was a one year, likened to the Perils of Pauline, as some(?) people have put it, hut, as we said, it was very appropriate that we had the meeting at the Shakespeare Theater because we were able to work in the fact that this all began as a Midsummer Night's Dream and went on to become a Winter's Tale and there were moments of Tempest and when the Justice Department first responded and turned us down it looked as though it was Love's Labor Lost, but finally on December the fifteenth it was a case of All's Well That Ends Well, So, on December twentieth we did finalize the documentation and the merger was completed. CARR: Well, let us go back a minute to that first conversation when you first learned of the logic that you described. JONES: It was in New York. Ed had come in for a Board meeting and we were just having a conversation together when he broached the fact that he had been giving a great deal of thought to the future and to the need for