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     1        because of that change, and that is precisely the reason
     2        why you did not allow anybody else to see this report and
     3        destroyed this report, because you did not want that fact
     4        to be able to be checked upon?
     5        A.  Absolutely false, wrong.  We did nothing artificial in
     6        Philadelphia.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Rampton, I am sorry if I was rather
     9        short.  Was there something you wanted to say?
    10
    11   MR. RAMPTON:  No, it is quite all right.  I am quite conscious
    12        that I do sometimes interrupt your Lordship.  Sometimes it
    13        is because I am listening to what Ms. Steel has just said
    14        and I am not thinking about what your Lordship has said.
    15        I was going to intervene and suggest that if an accusation
    16        is made that a document was falsified, not by McDonald's
    17        but, as the evidence is, by the people who did the survey,
    18        then there must be a basis for it, because the summary
    19        which we do have -- we do not have the original study --
    20        does not support what is said.
    21
    22   MS. STEEL: I did not say anything about falsifying.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Her point, which has been put to you and
    25        dealt with, just so there is no doubt, is that something
    26        was done to, as it were, raise the starting rates in inner
    27        city and hold the starting rates, if not bringing them
    28        down, in the suburbs, so that by May, which it was
    29        suggested was the month in respect of which starting rates
    30        were investigated, there was greater equality.  You said
    31        that that is not so?
    32        A.  That is correct, my Lord.
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I will make the same point, if I may.
    35        Mr. Stein has told your Lordship that that summary which we
    36        do have was not written by McDonald's.  If the effect of
    37        the summary is (as your Lordship may think it is) to
    38        suggest that the study made a fair comparison between the
    39        PUP results and the McDonald's survey conducted by this
    40        independent body, it must follow that Professor Perrin and
    41        his colleagues have deliberately suppressed information
    42        which they knew meant that the comparison was not
    43        being -----
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I had not understood that Mr. Stein was
    46        saying that.  I had understood that this was a summary
    47        prepared by McDonald's.
    48
    49   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, I am sorry.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let me find out -- but actually using words 
    52        taken from the report. 
    53
    54   THE WITNESS:   Yes, my Lord.  I use the word earlier "extracts".
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Who actually prepared the summary?
    57        A.  McDonald's prepared the summary from extracts from
    58        their documents.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think Ms. Steel was making an attack

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