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Old Nov 18, 2014, 11:30 am
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Originally Posted by LASUA1K
What he said is true. CO was on a downslide and would be in Chapter 11 by now. I hope people realize UA saved CO.
Neither had particularly good prospects for long-term viability without a merger partner. CO just would have been marginalized a lot quicker than UA.
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