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To: Kirk © who wrote (4642)	4/18/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: 2sigma	Respond to of 42834

Provocative, Kirk!

To: Kirk © who wrote (4642)	4/18/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Respond to of 42834

Kirk: Thanks for that interesting citation. The old story lingers, in some quarters, about a certain shirt collar manufacturer who predicted how rich he would surely become if every Chinaman were to buy but one of his collars per year. Needless to relate, the men of China never became affluent enough to afford his shirt collars, and, following, attachable shirt collars went out of style before his dreams of wealth were realized. Whether apocryphal or no, the story illustrates the hazards of predicting the "certain" course of the globe's economic future. However, if your e-mail correspondent were to have included Bob Brinker as one of the select 100, I'd be inclined to adjust my view of the given implica- tions of his statistical microcosm. :-)