Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site tilt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!chenr From: chenr@tilt.UUCP (Raymond Chen ) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: Unions, onions, and things... The Saga Continues Message-ID: <69@tilt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 13:29:52 EST Article-I.D.: tilt.69 Posted: Fri Apr 20 13:29:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Apr-84 01:49:49 EST References: <725@ihuxp.UUCP> <3113@fortune.UUCP> <729@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 23 To take a line from a recent article: "And the cry goes over the net -- BULL SHIT !!!!" These days, with the incredibly large and efficient freighters being built by the Japanese, and the incredibly inefficient and expensive steel- manufacturing processes used by American steel companies, you'd better believe that would hurt a steel company that had owned other profit- making businesses less to ditch a steel plant operating in the red (and maybe build a new one somewhere else) than it would to take a huge temporary loss necessary to modernize the plant. By the way, who do you think manufactures most of the free world's merchant ships? I'll give you a hint: They were also the one's to invent the supertanker. I'll give you another hint: J*p*n. Fill in the *. -- From the Random Fingers of -- Ray Chen {allegra | ihnp4 | mhuxi}!princeton!down!tilt!chenr "It's amazing what a thousand monkeys and a few typewriters can accomplish..."