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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF
COMS 0.001300.0%Nov 7 11:47 AM EST

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To: Scrapps who wrote (21494)10/12/2001 11:21:32 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) of 22053
 
With product endorsements like this sales may just fall.

"Trump wants parachute

From CLODAGH HARTLEY in Los Angeles

PROPERTY billionaire Donald Trump has been thinking of buying a PARACHUTE in the wake of last month’s attacks on skyscrapers.

Trump, 55 — owner of Manhattan’s glitzy Trump Towers — is one of scores of nervous New Yorkers to inquire about new “executive” chutes.

US makers Precision Aerodynamics say they have been besieged by calls about the £500 chutes — billed as a “last resort” for those trapped on top of burning high-rise buildings.

A rival, the Emergency Building Escape Parachute, will cost £1,575 or more — depending on the customer’s weight.

Precision Aerodynamics’ brochure says the chutes, developed after the September 11 atrocities, will open automatically.

It adds: “Simple steering and landing techniques can deliver you to the surface with confidence.”

But the American Parachute Industry Association said most people who used the products would DIE.

It is discouraging sales to office workers.

Spokesman Lowell Bachman said: “It’s just not a good idea.”


He suggested ropes and abseiling equipment might be a better choice.
thesun.co.uk
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