corporate governance, something which most people just took for granted was already in place. How does a bad company extricate itself from this mess? One has only to plea bargain, give up other employees, and then state that one will expense their employee stock options. It’s easy, it’s over, and soon to be forgotten. We wish to reaffirm to our shareholders that corpo- rate governance has always been in place at Expeditors and always will be. So, how did we fare through all of this confusion? Quite well, we must say because of the performance, through dedication, hard work, and loyalty, of the members of our small family. Did we say loyalty, that much ma- ligned word? When everyone feels that loyalty is on the wane, we feel it is alive and well at Expeditors. If we get a 90-95% buyoff on people believing in our mission and our culture, which has not changed from day one, we are quite satisfied. We continue to make great strides on the technology front with over 250 people in Seattle for programming,