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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Turn this one up, first of all.
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         MR. RAMPTON:  It is tab 15, pink VI, page 201.  Just look at
     3        it, please, first and tell me whether you did in fact
              write this page as it appears you did on 30th September
     4        1992?
              A.  Yes, I did.
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         Q.   Then I shall read it.  "Conclusions: On the basis of the
     6        results ..."  Well, I suppose I ought to ask you this.
              Did McDonald's submit the results of this survey to you?
     7        A.  Yes.
 
     8   Q.   You did not see them by accident?
              A.  No.
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         Q.   Were you asked to make your comments and conclusions about
    10        it?
              A.  Yes, I was.
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         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did you see the summary of the survey which
    12        is on page 200, or did you see the additional information
              whatever it may contain that was handed in this morning?
    13        A.  Yes.  I have not seen what came in this morning, but
              I did see the original raw data.
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         MR. RAMPTON:  That is what came in this morning is the original
    15        raw data.  It is a series of questionnaires?
              A.  That is right.
    16
         Q.   Filled in by employees?
    17        A.  Yes.
 
    18   Q.   You saw that as well?
              A.  Yes, I saw that before I wrote this report.
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         Q.   So you also saw the summary that has been prepared?
    20        A.  That is right.
 
    21   Q.   May I then read what you concluded.  I am much obliged to
              Mrs. Brinley-Codd.  Apparently it took you some time to
    22        digest it because we have a note in our new file of the
              raw data that it was sent to you on 31st July, page 27 of
    23        the new bundle.  You wrote: "Conclusions: On the basis of
              the results, I believe that we need not be concerned that
    24        there is undue reliance on McDonald's food for most of the
              employees.  I suspect that the quality of their diet is
    25        not influenced by the fact that the respondents work in a
              McDonald's restaurant".  Can I pause there, what did you 
    26        mean by that? 
              A.  Well, what I had in mind was that I suspected that 
    27        they would be fairly typical of many young people who do
              not have a particularly healthy diet anyway.
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         Q.   There is somebody there, a young chap of about 20 or 25,
    29        who seems to eat an awful of McDonald's, consumes an awful
              lot of beer and spirits, smokes 40 cigarettes a day but
    30        only weighs 9.5 stone.  Is that the sort of picture you
              had in mind?

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