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SPRINT NOMINATES
Bruce A Berman^® FOR THE ERNST AND YOUNG
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD

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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year^®
Orange County

March 16, 2000

Mr. Bruce Berman, CEO
Berman Investment Group LLC.

Dear Mr. Berman:

The search is on! We are searching for Orange County's best and brightest entrepreneurs and you have been nominated by Sprint, to participate as a nominee in this year's Entrepreneur Of The Year^® awards program.

Ernst and Young LLP and national sponsors USA Today, CNNfn and CNN, The Nasdaq-Amex Market Group, and The Center for Entrepreneur Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, have joined forces to recognize and honor outstanding entrepreneurs through the annual Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs gain the recognition they deserve for their contributions to Orange County's economy, encourage future entrepreneurs and, ultimately, enhanced California's business climate.

The Orange County program has consistently been the largest and one of the most successful programs successful programs among the 47 regional Entrepreneur Of The Year programs held throughout the United States. All Orange County Entrepreneur Of The Year award recipients continue on to the National Entrepreneur Of The Year competition where a panel of blue ribbon judges, selected by national sponsors, chooses the national winner. National finalists and award recipients will be announced at the international conference of the Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame in Palm Springs in November and will be featured in USA Today.

Please complete the enclosed nomination form and retune it to us no later than April 7, 2000. All information will be held in strict confidence. The Orange County award recipients will be selected in may by a panel of distinguished community leaders and honored at an awards dinner on June 22, 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine.

Please call Roseann right at 949-794-2382 if you have any questions about the Entrepreneur Of The Year awards program. Thank you for contributing to and encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in Orange County.

Very truly yours,


Chris L. Abston
Program Director
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