text: Our Technologies segment has had a strong year, and has set 
  aggressive goals for both sales and profit growth for 2003. The 
  time is right for these businesses to lead the way to our return 
  to profitability — particularly our liquid-crystal display, envi- 
  ronmental and semiconductor optics businesses. These are 
  strong businesses which continue to set the standard for their 
  markets and have plenty of growth potential. If the industries 
  in which we participate expand as we expect, we have every 
  confidence these businesses will be able to meet their goals. 
  We are also well on our way toward getting our optical fiber 
  and cable operations back to profitability as we reduce our 
  fixed cost structure. In October, we announced plans to 
  close several of our fiber plants and to streamline our cable  Although it has been a very painful process, we have dramat- 
  ically slowed the rate at which we are consuming cash and 
  short term investments. Much of this, regrettably, was through 
  a variety of plant closures and the elimination of about 7,100 
  jobs, in addition to the 12,000 jobs we eliminated last year. 
  As a result, a major drain on cash has been due to severance 