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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (6866)	11/2/1997 11:10:00 PM
From: kahunabear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

How about our ability to mix up that tasty concoction called Coca-Cola ? <g> Cold over ice they are hard to beat. Ahh.... Call me a connoisseur. WS

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (6866)	11/2/1997 11:21:00 PM
From: kahunabear	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Joan, Looks like tomorrow may be your kind of day or have you and the boys over at ML switched to the side of the wise and penniless ? <g> WS

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (6866)	11/2/1997 11:33:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Joan: You forgot our leadership in medical instrumentation, pharmacology and biotechnology as well (we are behind in cloning, but I am not sure I mind that so much). We should also add that we are undisputed leaders in the building of weapon systems, sattelite and other space based communications systems. We are losing ground in areas were in my opinion we should lose ground, those basic industries that are more brawn than brains. At the turn of the century (if memory serves) about 50% of our population worked and sweated on the farm with subsistence earning. Todasy, only 2 to 3% of our population works on the farm making a pretty good syandard of living. Then we barely fed ourselves, now we feed a lot of others. Those that left the farms (or at least their offsprings) have learned new professions with much higher value added (Marx would be proud of them), and the losses we are incurring now in steel workers and on line assembly people as well as in cloth making swet shops are fine with me, the displaced will learn to m,ake a living at, eventually better jobs: Tort Lawyers, ambulance chasers, financial engineering (I should have a big <G> after each of these new professions). Zeev

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (6866)	11/3/1997 7:01:00 AM
From: tekgk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Joan, Aircraft - yep - that's what I get for over generalizing big error on my part. The Airbus is still in the game but clearly not the leader. Energy systems - Europe has us beat in nuclear and everyone can and does build dams and power plants. Communications - Cienna is a classic example - their 4x multiplexer product was supplanted by Alcatel's and Perelli's 16x product. Of course the race is not over and Lucent is clearly entering the race. I'd call this one neck and neck. New materials - Everyone is into new materials like nano-tech, I don't think that there is any clear winner here. I was thinking in terms of the really big industries that make really huge amounts of money like cars, textiles, consumer electronics, steel, ship building, manufacturing ... Of course with the over capacity this could all change - and I did leave out airplanes.