Day 141 - 23 Jun 95 - Page 05

     
     1        understanding what I am saying, that I had produced the
     2        documents as a result of the Tower's report.  That is the
     3        point I was trying to get across.  I just kind of assumed,
     4        after hearing that, that the point was across.
     5
     6        If you keep going, to further show my confusion on this --
     7        or other people's confusion -- when Mr. Morris starts
     8        asking me about it, I keep saying to him:  "This is their
     9        report, not my report", because I cannot figure out why he
    10        is asking me that it is my report when I keep trying to say
    11        it is their report.
    12
    13   Q.   I do not see that, Mr. Stein.  Mr. Morris said to you:
    14        "Mr. Stein, McDonald's extracted summary which was
    15        allegedly based on the unavailable survey, in your third
    16        paragraph in your summary" -- in your summary -- "page
    17        1472"; and you say: "Third paragraph, yes."  You do not
    18        say:  "Oh no, it is not our summary"?
    19        A.  If you would please go to line 27 with what Mr. Morris
    20        asked me.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  On which page are we now?
    23        A.  Page 43, my Lord.  Mr. Morris asked me a question about
    24        average differential between city and suburban starting
    25        rates for McDonald's: "....restaurants included in the PUP
    26        survey is actually 11 cents".  He is dealing with some
    27        words and some confusion, I believe, with regard to words.
    28        If you will look at my response, I am saying, really, this
    29        is TPF&C's report, and I am trying to get the point across
    30        at that time as vividly as I can.  I do not understand why
    31        I am being asked the question.  Here it is: "They were
    32        trying to mirror what they thought the time period was that
    33        PUP had used, and they are trying to emphatically say there
    34        that" -----
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is another point.
    37        A.  My Lord, the only point I am making is, I realise there
    38        may have been some confusion, but I made several
    39        attempts -- and there are others in the transcript -- where
    40        I tried to clear up the confusion.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:   The position is, is it not, Mr. Stein, that you
    43        have changed your story because you have got yourself in a
    44        tight corner that you want to fight your way out of?
    45        A.  Not at all.  When Mr. Morris asked me about it a couple
    46        of days ago, I used terms such as "photocopy", it was a
    47        photocopy of what TPF&C had done.  I have, many, many
    48        times, tried to get across the fact that this is TPF&C.
    49
    50   Q.   The photocopy pages was the reference to the last three 
    51        pages of the document, which are the charts -- the last 
    52        four pages, the charts. 
    53        A.  It was also in reference, from what I recall, to the
    54        entire document.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do we actually have the original of that
    57        document in England, or is it in America still?  I need to
    58        know.  We all have a photocopy in our bundles ---
    59
    60   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.