Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Unions, onions, and other things to cry about Message-ID: <862@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Sat, 14-Apr-84 01:03:02 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.862 Posted: Sat Apr 14 01:03:02 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 01:41:36 EST References: <2679@rabbit.UUCP>, <712@ihuxx.UUCP> <3026@fortune.UUCP>, <719@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 21 -- >> My only question is why is it cheaper for me to get steel for my >> hypothetical factory in Chicago from Japan instead of Gary, Indiana? >> My only answer is that it is a five-letter word and it is not >> "onion". >> Walt Pesch Let's see. 5 letter word. Must have something to do with the steel industry, obsessed with quarterly reports, abandoning their plants (modernizing is expensive) to diversify into finance and entertainment companies and anything else that'll turn a fast buck. I've got it! "Greed." -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 13 Apr 84 [24 Germinal An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***