Article: Symbol Technologies seeks positive spin on poor results.

Byline: Mark Harrington

May 10--With its stock hovering near a 52-week low, the market for tech products softening and Wall Street worried about rising costs, Symbol Technologies Inc. suddenly isn't the scrappy comeback kid it appeared to be a year ago.

But as it wraps up a three-year turnaround effort, the maker of laser bar-code scanners and hand-held computers appears to be well aware that the market will reward it only for performance -- not merely for overcoming the handicap of its scandal-ridden past.

"Now we have to turn our attention to growing the bottom line at a much faster rate," chief executive Bill Nuti told 60 bagel-chomping ...

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