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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (23451)	5/31/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

microsoft pushes beyond desktop computing and into Internet computing. regards quote.bloomberg.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (23451)	5/31/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I'll bet Seattle and Vancouver have pretty similar residents, political-viewpoint wise. They seem to, but the bigger difference becomes apparent when one compares Washington (which was supposed to have been called "Columbia", until Congress worried that it would cause confusion with the "District of Columbia") and British Columbia. BC has had premiers (including the current one) who are more closely allied with the labour movement than any recent Washington governor (including the current one) would claim to be. The list of "Crown Corporations" in BC would scare the daylights out of most socialist-phobic Americans. Consider this statement on the official party web site (http://www.ndp.ca/history) about the founder of Canada's NDP (which runs BC and Sask., ): "Observing industrial capitalism in Canada and Britain and its failure to meet the needs of working people, Woodsworth came to the view that personal salvation did nothing to right great social and economic wrongs that were so evident in the first decades of the twentieth century. " Ahh. Refreshing just because it's so difficult to imagine any US politician associating with a party that would say such things. The fact is that "liberal" in the US just isn't very liberal. And imagine a US governor saying something like this, which comes from a recent radio address by BC's premier (http://www.premier.gov.bc.ca/premiersays.html): "As long as there are British Columbian families struggling with the uncertainty of these economic times, it is government's responsibility to do every thing possible to address their concerns. We all want a health care system we know we can rely on; quality education for our children, and their future; and a stronger, more diversified economy."