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"We haven't even split our shares of the booty," Kelemvor said at last.

Microsoft, which split its shares 2 for 1 last Friday, gained 3 1/4 yesterday, to 93 3/8.

Merrill also said that it would split its shares 2-for-1 next month and the firm raised its quarterly dividend 7 percent, to 32 cents a share.

As a result of Berkshire's refusal to split its shares, its share price has risen to levels otherwise unheard of in American business.

I.B.M. was dropped from the average in 1939 and did not return until 1979, shortly after it split its shares 4 for 1.

This is the eighth time the company, which is based in Redmond, Wash., has split its shares since it went public in March 1986.

Tomorrow, as the company marks the beginning of its third month as a public company, it will split its shares, 2 for 1.

It is the third time the company has split its shares this year.

Citigroup said it would split its shares on a 4-for-3 basis next month.

Last July, Zoltek, which is based in St. Louis, split its shares 3 for 2.