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To: i-node who wrote (770861)	2/23/2014 7:05:53 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1574788

If by "out of the loop"...you mean dumb as a box of rocks.....you are correct.

To: i-node who wrote (770861)	2/23/2014 9:04:55 PM
From: puborectalis	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway J_F_Shepard Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574788

"It is worth noting that even some big inventions and research, like Computed Tomography, which technically were invented in other countries, failed to develop until they became United States products." EMI (British) was the innovator(Hounsfield) and dominant CT machine in the seventies. It looked as if 1977 would be a very good year for EMI Medical Inc., a North American subsidiary of EMI Ltd. EMI’s CT scanner had met with enormous success in the American market. In the three years since the scanner’s introduction, EMI medical electronics sales had grown to £42 million.