Tom Burnett
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"Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr." was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California/Pleasanton, California. He resided in San Ramon, California/San Ramon, California.

On September 11, 2001, Burnett was a passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks. He died when the plane crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania/Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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It's very encouraging in terms of corporate expectations. Corporate America is willing to bet on future growth prospects overall in spite of the short-term problems that we're going to have.

Probably we're going to end up as Pfizer as the victor, ... We believe we'll probably end up there, but the ratio will probably be sweetened too.

I just don't know who can compete with Pfizer -- it's a pretty tall order.

They are a very independent lot these Hewlett shareholders. They don't do what you want them to.

I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.

A combination of negatives.

This is not a transaction of equals -- this is tough, dominant Dow. They're in charge.

We saw they had a very competitive athletic program, they were in a good location. It seemed to make sense for us.

There might be transactions involving smaller companies that probably represent more available targets than the networks because they're so hard to pry loose from their strong owners.