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Such amazing change in less than eight years.  How is this possible?  Change in government?  New manufacturing techniques?  More docile, poorer workers?

Or was the "millstone" analysis back then totally off base?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 04:23:35 AM EST
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Or proper engineering, as opposed to cheap and shoddy, is becoming economically attractive. Everybody else has forgotten how to do it, in the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed (ger)man is king.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 06:01:19 AM EST
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The one-eyed (ger)man has always been good at proper engineering. They invented industrial chemistry for better and worse (and they are still the best).
by Francois in Paris on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 06:29:10 PM EST
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