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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (182965)	3/6/2006 5:03:11 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Noel, you make the common mistake of thinking that prices being the same indicates lack of competition. You are wrong." I pointed out that the price changes are in synch, that the changes occur at precise times, and that the low price areas are invariably in sparsely populated areas. Sounds like the free market is not functioning here and in fact many who have studied the phenomenon agree. That's why this is not relevant. "What do you think would happen if one company charged more for the same thing as others charge? We international capitalists and marketing experts after decades of research have figured out that people buy it from somebody else" "If BP did something wrong that damaged your property, you can always sue." True but irrelevant. The company I worked for lost a lot of money thanks to BP's test method revision of a thermoset resin. No real chance to sue. Once I went through a NYC airport 5 weeks after being treated with radioactive Iodine. No residual radioactivity should have been present. On 3 separate occasions officials with radioactivity measuring devices circled me and on 3 occasions I told them that I had been treated with radioactive Iodine. It was easy enough for me to figure out what they were looking for. On all 3 occasions the officials were polite and friendly. On another occasion I went through passport control and I was directed to a separate office. After 20 minutes or so my passport was returned and I could continue on. No reason given for the delay. I guess the delay was because my passport didn't have the latest digital signatures. Cool, calm, and professional from the officials' side. My experience with airport officials of all sorts is positive. From Bombay(I was carrying a special level and no serial number was printed on the device) to Warsaw(didn't have papers to import some PCBs) and from Narita(didn't have a visa) to San Paolo(didn't have a visa). Why didn't I have a visa. Well Danes didn't need them for these countries and as an American I assumed that I didn't either(Japan). On the Brazil trip I just forgot to check. Once the Indian Embassy had stamped my passport with an incorrectly stamped visa and that problem was also solved politely and smoothly in Calcutta. I was allowed in and got to start my work without delays. My experience is that by listening to the other side one can find a back door through which one can solve problems. I learned that, among other places, in China.