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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: We're Beatrice ...and you're not.
Message-ID: <881@loral.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 01:51:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 01:51:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 17-Jun-85 03:53:41 EDT
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In article <459@ihu1m.UUCP> gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>--
>Just how much of the world does Beatrice Foods own?...
>There I was, watching the tube the other
>day, and I swear, 4 out of every 5 commercials ended with
>that insidious tag, "We're Beatrice." 
>...

Probably that's because Beatrice (as such, rather than any one
subsidiary) was sponsoring the program you were watching.  Simple.
Nothing unusual there.  Sorry, no grand multinational capitalistic
greedy-slimy-oppression-of-the-proletariat-conspiracy-plot-whatever
here.

[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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...Though we may sometimes disagree,
   You are still a friend to me!