This excerpt taken from the BSX 10-Q filed May 9, 2005.
Cash Flow
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Our ability to meet our projected cash needs and fund our share
repurchase program over the next twelve-months, to maintain borrowing
flexibility and to renew or refinance our borrowings beyond the next
twelve-months;
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Our ability to access the public debt market and to issue debt or
equity securities on terms reasonably acceptable to us; and
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Our ability to maintain a 24 percent effective tax rate,
excluding certain charges, throughout the remainder of 2005 and to recover
substantially all of our deferred tax assets.
