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and pretty soon our 60 million commitment--pretty soon being two years, something like that--our commitment was used up, not in terms of five years, [laughter] which we had said, but in terms of the amount of money--at a much faster rate than we had thought. So we finally folded. And it was a--

Q:

You didn't do that, right?

Heiskell:

No, that was done after my retirement, that was done in 1981.

Q:

But were you--

Heiskell:

I'm sorry.

Q:

--Would you have folded it as well? I mean, was that the direction it was going?

Heiskell:

Yes, yes.

Q:

Should it have been folded sooner?

Heiskell:

Shouldn't have been bought in the first place. Bad mistake. I mean, unless we were really--I still think that a total commitment by Shepley was the only thing that could have made a difference.





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