Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 57
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2 Q. In the Supplementary Bundle that was served the other day?
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4 MR. MORRIS: Supplementary 9.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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8 MS. STEEL: There is a magazine in tab 15 called "High Levels"?
9 A. Yes.
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11 Q. Have you seen this magazine before?
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. It is a magazine put out by the Company; is it not?
15 A. It is.
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17 Q. Who is it directed at?
18 A. It is directed to the offices and the people who work
19 in them, although it is certainly shared with others.
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21 Q. The offices or officers?
22 A. The offices. It is primarily for people who work in the
23 offices, although it will be seen and shared with others.
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25 Q. Right. You mean McDonald's Head Office and the regional
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27 A. The regional offices and it is certainly made available
28 to visitors who are in the building, whether they be
29 internal people or external people, they will have a chance
30 to see this.
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32 Q. So this is something that basically reflects the Company's
33 views?
34 A. I think so. I think it is fair to say that, yes.
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36 Q. You would not expect it to contain a pack of lies?
37 A. No, I would not.
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39 Q. If you just look at page 6 of this magazine?
40 A. Page 6?
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42 Q. Yes. It has "cementing relations"?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. It talks about an annual suppliers conference for the
46 purposes of cementing relationships with suppliers. About
47 half way down the first column, it says:
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49 "The presentation covered the Quality Assurance Department
50 goals and was presented by Barbara Crawford."
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52 Then in the next column, the first full paragraph says:
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54 "Barbara herself will be looking at areas which we did not
55 get too involved with in the past - animal welfare, crop
56 production methods, genetic engineer of both plants and
57 animals and food legislation which is a great time
58 consumer."
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60 You have no reason to think that that is untrue, have you?
