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Scenes from an Annual Meeting

Posted on May 14, 2008

First we go back in time, to May 3, 2008:It is 3:30 p.m., Central Standard Time 1:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and the giant exhibition hall in the Omaha Qwest Center is filled with dozens of Berkshire Hathaway companies selling their wares to thousands of Berkshire shareholders.Nothing is free here not the Ginzu knives or the Fruit of the Loom t-shirts with Warren and Charlie stenciled on them except some Wrigley gum being given away to celebrate the recently-announced Berkshire-financed Wrigley buyout by Mars Company. (Thanks, Warren!)Still, the place is packed and not just with ...

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