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From: rwa@auvax.UUCP (Ross Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Japan and semiconductors
Message-ID: <478@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 88 07:54:12 GMT
References: <2244@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
Lines: 17
Summary: really?  some numbers, please...

In article <2244@crash.cts.com>, haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>           Is this a good thing?   If the Japanese are successful in driving
>         our chip industry under because of the concentration of capital that
>         their society allows, we will all be in trouble!   Remember that in
>         Japan there are individuals who control much more capital than there
>         (oops, their) counterparts here.  They operate on a longer range plan
>         than we.

Without supporting evidence, the preceeding paragraph must be
considered mere hand-waving.  Last time I looked, most of the
billionaires lived in America or some Arabian state.

Ross Alexander,
Athabasca University.
Alberta

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