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Old Jul 2, 2001, 2:08 pm
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Warren Buffett once said in a speech at the University of North Carolina's business school that if a capitalist had been present when the Wright Brothers made their historic flight, he should have shot the plane down. But I think US Airways may have finally come upon a perfect way to make money: Keep agreeing to mergers with other companies, and then wait for them to back out.

http://biz.yahoo.com/mf/010702/news02_010702.html

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