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To: Scumbria who wrote (141429)4/30/2001 4:55:02 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Yes, sorry, I translated the business about attitudes to mean that more people were seeking a useful education, by percentage, and therefore there was a certain superiority. In any case, you are mistaken, the headquarters is Geneva:

eu.st.com

I did not see anything about being number 5 this year, but you may be right. They claim that the R&D is spread out globally, but I suppose you might be right about France and Italy. The workforce figures are interesting, though:

jobs.st.com

About 17k are European, about 10k are Asian, about 3500 are American, and about 6k are "Meditteranean", presumably North African and Middle Eastern.