After reading some of the ways short-term earnings are manipulated and reading about the case filed against Qwest Communications Joe Nacchio, I wonder if it would ever be possible for an honest person to direct a giant or the pressure to satisfy Wall Street and the various shareholders would prevail, turning the honest person into a manipulator, all for the sake of numbers. I say let the cards fall where they fall and if a company has a bad quarter or year, so be it and if the company survives and makes a turnaround, you'll know it was done right. If everyone played by the same rules, life would be so great