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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amsterdam who wrote (17763)	7/29/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Political discussions on SI? Another indicator of a bear market? Its a bear mkt in enterprise sw, Amsterdam, and I for one have no idea what to do. I've started hanging out on the "CNBC hunks" thread. Arrrggghh Michelle

To: Amsterdam who wrote (17763)	7/29/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

>>Any correlation to the US dominance in high-tech was certainly an unintended consequence of Kennedy's idea No, Kennedy did not originate the space program. That occurred in the 1950's, well before a speech writer told Kennedy that he needed to set a goal for his administration and the nation, mentioning putting men on the moon before the end of the decade. Indeed, much of US dominance in high tech can be traced to defense spending on R & D, of which the space program was a part.