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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126339)	9/29/2001 3:20:10 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

KT - ...I have a friend who works for Reuters and she is definitely not crooked. However, she also doesn't think much about* her firm and is quietly seeking employment elsewhere.* It seems to me that either 'about' should be 'of', she daydreams a lot on the job, or 'firm' is missing a following noun. -g- Regards, Don

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (126339)	9/29/2001 4:48:46 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

If I say a "firm" or "system" is crooked I'm talking about the top dogs , not all the people in it. Hell years ago I use to slip onboard Russian ships to drink and play chess with the crews. They had to hide me from the KBG , hell most of them ( the crews ) were real regular people and dam likeable and had as much or more distrust of their own government as we ever had of ours. They had a joke about work that I still remember,, They pretend to pay us so we pretend to work ! I can't judge individuals the same way I do the system they may be married to. As for Russian people in general they are great they do tend to "drink" a little to much; however we would be just as bad if there was nothing else to do. Back in those days when they got shore leave it was brief & they had to go in a group with a "political officer" over seeing them. Some stuff they could buy but a lot was off limits. I did my share to corrupt them by sneaking playboy magazines onboard..one mag would get me up to 3 bottles of vodka , or a real bear skin hat. :-) Jim