Thursday's Buybacks: Alliant Techsystems for $100 Million

The following are stock buybacks announced over the past 30 days.

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COMPANY	SYMBOL	AMOUNT	NOTES
9/7/2006
Alliant Techsystems Inc.	ATK	$100 mln	about 1.25 mln shares
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	$75 mln	adds to prior plan
Sunoco Inc.	SUN	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
9/6/2006
Clear Channel Communications	CCU	$400 mln	adds to prior plan
Lawson Products, Inc.	LAWS	1 mln shares	dutch auction tender
Merge Technologies Inc.	MRGE	$20 mln	over 2 years
Rockwell Automation	ROK	9 mln shares	over 12 months
9/5/2006
Altiris	ATRS	$50 mln	over 24 months
Books-A-Million	BAMM	$25 mln	adds to prior plan
iMergent	IIG	$20 mln	12.4 mln shares outstanding
Micrel Inc.	MCRL	$25 mln	adds to prior plan
Microtek Medical Holdings	MTMD	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Mobile Telesystems	MBT	10% of shares	over 12 months
The Management Network group	TMNG	2 mln shares	12% of outstanding
Wauwatosa Holdings Inc	WAUW	1.49 mln shares	14% of outstanding
World Air Holdings	WLDA	$20 mln	dutch auction tender
9/1/2006
Atlantic Coast Federal Corp.	ACFC	478,000 shares	prior plan complete
Tim Hortons, Inc.	THI	$180.5 mln	NYSE or TSX
8/31/2006
Entegris Inc.	ENTG	$150 mln	10% of outstanding
Mannatech, Inc.	MTEX	$20 mln	adds to prior plan
RBC Bearings Inc.	ROLL	$7.5 mln	20.4 mln shares outstanding
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	$300 mln	adds to prior plan
8/30/2006
BankFinancial Corp.	BFIN	2.45 mln shares	10% of outstanding
Harte-Hanks Inc.	HHS	6 mln shares	adds to prior plan
8/29/2006
Fair Isaac Corp.	FIC	$250 mln	replaces prior plan
NetEase.com Inc.	NTES	$100 mln	prior plan complete
Steel Dynamics, Inc.	STLD	5 mln shares	10% of outstanding
8/28/2006
Amazon.com, Inc.	AMZN	$500 mln	over 24 months
Boeing Co.	BA	$3 bln	replaces prior plan
Brinker International	EAT	$450 mln	adds to prior plan
Coachmen	COA	$1 mln
Jack Henry & Associates	JKHY	5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Kinetic Concepts Inc.	KCI	$200 mln
Oil States International	OIS	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
ValueVision Media, Inc.	VVTV	$10 mln	over 12 months
8/25/2006
Conn's Inc.	CONN	$50 mln
CorVel Corp.	CRVL	200,000 shares	over 3 months
Federated Department Stores	FD	$2 bln	adds to prior plan
Hopfer Bancorp	HFBC	125,000 shares	replaces prior plan
Lamar Advertising Co.	LAMR	$250 mln	prior plan complete
8/24/2006
Commercial Bankshares, Inc.	CLBK	$4 mln	replaces prior plan
First Bancorp of Indiana	FBEI	77,000 shares	adds to prior plan
The Home Depot	HD	$3.5 bln	adds to prior plan
Williams-Sonoma	WSM	5 mln shares	prior plan complete
8/23/2006
QC Holdings Inc.	QCCO	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Realogy Corp.	H	48 mln shares	19% of outstanding
8/22/2006
American Physicians Capital	ACAP	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Ark Restaurants Corp.	ARKR	$4 mln
Compuware Corp.	CPWR	$300 mln	adds to prior plan
8/21/2006
BHP Billiton	BHP	$3 bln
Castelle	CSTL	$1 mln	4 mln shares outstanding
Genuine Parts Company	GPC	15 mln shares	adds to prior plan
IHOP	IHP	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Lowe's	LOW	$2 bln	prior plan complete
Photon Dynamics Inc.	PHTN	1.1 mln shares
Trend Micro Inc.	TMIC	2 mln shares	134.6 mln shares outstanding
8/18/2006
Alliance Semiconductor Corp.	ALSC	$30 mln	dutch auction tender
Family Dollar Stores	FDO	5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Innospec Inc.	IOSP	$2 mln	over 2 months
Microsoft Corp.	MSFT	$16.2 bln	adds to prior plan
8/17/2006
Tween Brands Inc.	TWB	$125 mln	11% of outstanding
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	$100 mln
8/16/2006
Advance America	AEA	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Clifton Savings Bancorp	CSBK	648,000 shares	5% of outstanding
Frontier Financial Corp.	FTBK	5% of outstanding	adds to prior plan
Hewlett-Packard	HPQ	$6 bln
Macrovision Corp.	MVSN	$50 mln
Provident Community Bancshares	PCBS	92,000 shares	5% of outstanding
8/15/2006
3M Co.	MMM	$1 bln	adds to prior plan
Campbell Soup Co.	CPB	$620 mln	adds to prior plan
Gevity HR Inc.	GVHR	$75 mln	adds to prior plan
PetSmart	PETM	$142 mln	adds to prior plan
Polo Ralph Lauren	RL	$250 mln	adds to prior plan
Winmark Corporation	WINA	500,000 shares	adds to prior plan
8/11/2006
Albany International	AIN	2 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Safeco Corp.	SAFC	10 mln shares	adds to prior plan
8/10/2006
AmerisourceBergen Corp.	ABC	$750 mln	upon completion of prior plan
Briggs & Stratton	BGG	$120 mln	over 18 months
Frozen Food Express Industries	FFEX	750,000 shares	18.3 mln shares
Haemonetics Corp.	HAE	$40 mln
North Pointe Holdings	NPTE	$5 mln	over 24 months
Premium Standard Farms	PORK	$20 mln	4% of outstanding
Target Corp.	TGT	$5 bln	through 2008
Todco	THE	$150 mln	61.9 mln shares outstanding
8/9/2006
HNI Corp.	HNI	$200 mln	adds to prior plan
Laidlaw International, Inc.	LI	15.6 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Meredith Corp.	MDP	3 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Nuveen Investments	JNC	7 mln shares
O.I. Corporation	OICO	100,000 shares	2.9 mln shares outstanding
Pool Corp.	POOL	$50 mln	prior plan complete
Sigma-Aldrich	SIAL	5 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Summit Financial Group	SMMF	225,000 shares	3% of outstanding
Wabash National Corp.	WNC	$50 mln	replaces prior plan
8/8/2006
FPIC Insurance Group	FPIC	500,000 shares	adds to prior plan
Hypercom Corp.	HYC	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Seagate Technology	STX	$2.5 bln	over 24 months
Tredegar	TG	5 mln shares
8/7/2006
Acxiom	ACXM	$300 mln
Irwin Financial Corp.	IFC	2 mln shares	up to $50 mln
8/4/2006
Ambassadors International Inc.	AMIE	$10 mln	adds to prior plan
Aspect Medical Systems	ASPM	2 mln shares	22.5 mln shares outstanding
Arbor Realty Trust, Inc.	ABR	1 mln shares
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	1.5 mln shares
Illinois Tool Works	ITW	35 mln shares	6% of outstanding
Temple-Inland Inc.	TIN	6 mln shares	5% of outstanding
8/3/2006
Cardinal Health	CAH	$1.5 bln	adds to prior plan
Marriott International	MAR	40 mln shares	adds to prior plan
MITY Enterprises	MITY	400,000 shares	adds to prior plan
Sciele Pharma Inc.	SCRX	$30 mln	over 12 months
Sprint Nextel Corp.	S	$6 bln
TD AMERITRADE Holding Corp.	AMTD	12 mln shares	611 mln shares outstanding
U.S. Bancorp	USB	150 mln shares	replaces prior plan
8/2/2006
BlackRock Inc.	BLK	2.1 mln shares	20 mln shares outstanding
Credit Acceptance Corp.	CACC	$25 mln	adds to prior plan
Digital Insight Corp.	DGIN	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Florida Rock Industries	FRK	$200 mln	including prior plan
Perma-Fix Environmental Services	PESI	$2 mln	45.78 mln shares outstanding
Starbucks Corp.	SBUX	25 mln shares	adds to prior plan
Willis Group Holdings Limited	WSH	$1 bln	replaces prior plan
8/1/2006
Blue Nile Inc.	NILE	$50 mln	adds to prior plan
Document Sciences Corp.	DOCX	$1 mln	over 1 year
Equity One Inc.	EQY	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Nabors Industries	NBR	$500 mln
NutriSystem	NTRI	$50 mln	36.3 mln shares outstanding
Symbol Technologies	SBL	$200 mln
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates	VSEA	$100 mln	adds to prior plan
Vertrue	VTRU	1 mln shares	adds to prior plan
7/31/2006
Altiris	ATRS	$50 mln
American Physicians Service Group	AMPH	$2 mln	prior plan complete
China TechFaith Wireless	CNTF	$40 mln	over 6 months
PS Business Parks	PSB	4.5 mln shares
Tellabs Inc.	TLAB	$300 mln	adds to prior plan
Wabtech Corp.	WAB	$50 mln
Wintrust Financial Corp.	WTFC	2 mln shares	over 18 months
Source: The Online Investor