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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: flickerful who wrote (33444)	10/6/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: wallacestevens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

oh, flicks; you've got a lot of verve!

To: flickerful who wrote (33444)	10/7/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 132070

Hi Flickerful - - I was thinking about saying it, but I figure MB is too smart a guy not to know about it, and I am way too lazy to track it down, but I remember reading earlier this year that some company in Canada is mining diamonds of a quality to rival DeBeers, which prompted DeBeers to send up a trial balloon that the diamonds it would sell in the future would have a microscopic "DeBeers" engraved on them where it could only be seen with a jeweler's loupe. The problem being, as I understand it, that diamond prices are artificially inflated by controlling the supply, kind of like OPEC and oil prices in the 80's. Or like Russia and gold.