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sells for less than its assets are worth,
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then the company maybe should be broken up
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and the assets taken and given somewhere else
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because the low stock price indicates a problem.
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I don't know how to evaluate everything Icahn has done,
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but some corporate raiders have been unkind to employees.
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Maybe it's not always the raider;
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it's that some employees had trusted in an implicit contract
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that they were offered by their employer.
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For example, the employer may have said verbally
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--or suggested to an employee
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--that if you do well, we'll promote you up