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To: Michael Do who wrote (63445)	11/27/2001 12:07:46 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It's a global economy, Michael, with multinational actors. The U.S. would be pretty powerless without Middle Eastern oil and other resources (e.g. platinum, titanium) from a multitude of countries. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Michael Do who wrote (63445)	11/27/2001 4:01:00 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Lol. I can tell you that your posts generate quite a laugh over here. I still remember an American that didn't know any European inventions. I told him about the transistor, the computer, the World Wide Web and MP3and then suddenly he understood that not everything he knew was invented in America. It is true, that your market has been big for a long time, which makes it easier for you to make big companies and mass produce at a cheaper price, whereas Europe typically has small companies that are more knowledge-based. A company with more than 10,000 employees is quite big over here, but we are very good at combining knowledge with production, generating high-value products. A good example is Brüel & Kjær. Harley Davidson motorbike engines wouldn't sound as they do if it wasn't for Brüel & Kjær. B&K is a small to medium-sized company with approx. 600 employees, but has world patents on many sound and vibration related issues and has standardized much of the technology used in sound and vibration measurement today. I hope that you will one day realize that there are worlds out there you haven't explored yet, that look very different from what you know. Lars.