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To: Rajala who wrote (84915)	10/26/2000 3:08:09 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 152472

We are talking about gaining 25% cost advantage doing nothing more than scratching their bottoms. Which means you're also talking about increasing costs of importing non-homegrown tech and outsourcing manufacturing, not to mention an increasing drain of talent away from Europe to the strong-currency US...I'm surrounded by engineers who used to work for the Euro telecomm names we're all familiar with. Increasing competitiveness by killing your currency is a short-term sop at best.