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Technology Stocks : USRX /COMS - and other "stuff"
COMS 0.00130-18.8%Nov 7 11:47 AM EST
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To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (3955)5/24/1997 1:10:00 PM
From: Janice Shell   of 5244
 
Sonny--

The English dress so appallingly that they don't even come into the picture. The Scandinavians are similar to the Germans, though not quite as relentlessly hearty. And of course there are fewer of 'em, and they don't tend to travel in groups. The Japanese, of course, travel in groups--very large groups--almost exclusively. They take many, many photographs of each other. They also take photographs of the contents of shop windows.

We probably are being called "cheap" nowadays. All of Europe has become exceedingly expensive. This has in part to do with cultural differences: the ordinary Frenchman is willing regularly to spend much more on restaurant meals than is the ordinary American. Italians will pay sums for clothing and furniture that would make their U.S. counterparts blanch. But neither will expect to have houses as large as ours. That said, unless you get a special deal you'll pay a bomb for hotels here. I had a great deal of difficulty explaining to an American outfit for whom I did some contract work last year that a $150 per diem allowance for a hotel in Florence was absurd, unless they expected me to stay in a dump. And a couple of years ago a friend and I, though horrified, upped $400 for a night in the Dsseldorf Holiday Inn.

And how are Americans identified here? By their running shoes.

Janice
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