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To: thames_sider who wrote (14432)	3/10/2006 9:34:52 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542380

Watch out for low-flying pigs. They're zooming about in my neighborhood, too. <g>

To: thames_sider who wrote (14432)	3/10/2006 9:45:27 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542380

"I think it is very dangerous to enter a new world in which every purchase of an American asset by a foreign entity is scrutinized by the government," said Kevin Hassett, director of economic policies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington. The Dubai deal is not this. The key element in that deal was national security, coupled with the known inadequacies of port security. This quote will be correct if the political tides generalize in that direction. I don't see they are there yet.