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"It's become the county identity," said Sarah Mondale, a Suffern-based filmmaker who tracks the controversial history of the site in "MEGAMALL," which she co-directed with Vera Aronow and Roger Grange, husband-and-wife documentarians who live one mile from the mall.

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"The controversy heated up," said Ms. Mondale, who convinced Ms. Aronow and Mr. Grange to help her shoot the meetings.

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Bruce Aronow , the fund's lead manager, has maintained large positions in companies that he expects to benefit from an uptick in corporate spending on technology, such as Aruba Networks Inc. and Tibco Software Inc.

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"We always thought we'd be on walkers and canes before we finished it," Ms. Aronow said.

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"There's a lot of conflict of interest," Ms. Aronow said.

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Even beleaguered consumers proved to be a source of profits for Mr. Aronow's fund, which has about $732 million in assets.

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"Employees across an enterprise have an expectation that regardless of where they are or what kind of device they are using, that they will be able to access all the information and data they need to do their jobs at any time of day or night, and that requires a very robust infrastructure," says Mr. Aronow.

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Mr. Aronow dragged his own family to eat at their local Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant before buying the stock.

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True, consumers may be staggering under heavy debt loads and wary about the job market, but Mr. Aronow noticed that didn't affect their willingness to pay monthly fees to Netflix Inc. in exchange for the ability to rent DVDs by mail and watch an ever-growing array of films and other programs on their computers, thanks to streaming technologies.

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"I don't know anybody who has a stellar job at the mall," Ms. Aronow continued.

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