But aside from investor funding, it has not been profitable, and has fared worse than its competitors, Amazon.com's Kindle and Apple Inc.

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The second proposal, on performance review, has fared worse.

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The NYSE composite index has fared even worse: It's down 27% year to date.

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BioTransplant (nasdaq: BTRN - news - people ), another company that hoped to use cloning in embryonic stem-cell technology, has fared far worse.

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Greece has fared far worse, with GDP collapsing by almost 7% last year and expected to fall by a further 4.7% this year, bringing its cumulative slump since 2007 to 17%.

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Murphy's oldest publication, California Technology Stock Letter, has fared much worse: down 53.8% for the first half of 2002 and returning an average of negative 36.5% a year for the last five years.

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