A-B Stands by its Word

**Alert**Anheuser-Busch's analyst conference is already under way in New York, and so far nobody has noticed me in my Shamu costume as I lurk in the corner. Not much new news so far, but we note that A-B stands by most of its assertions that it made during its third quarter earnings call, with the exception of international profits, which will be dampened by negative mix shift in the UK (negative mix shift usually means that consumers are gravitating toward