Replying to LO27797 --
Well put Barry,
And you might also say that the motivated Russian population continues to
work for little to no money at all. Why?
We didn't beat them with a superior product, we just outspent them from a
place of great weather and tremendous physical resources. Better to
wonder how Germany, a country the size of two Wisconsins, could challenge
a nation of such wealth, or Japan, or South Korea. There are serious
questions that American business should be asking ourselves but I don't
see it. In point of fact most complain if you do question them seriously.
Less is more they say. One good light in all of this is that the only
one's talking seriously about Enron are the Wall Street commentators. That
is hopeful. But who knows.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
mcore@nyc.rr.com
> Almost five years ago I visited northwestern Russia, specifically, the
> cities of St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Novgorod, Vladimir, Tver and
> Moscow. Just a few months before the economic collapse, the countryside
> around most all these cities left a sorrowful impression on me. Ben and
> Jerry's popular ice cream available from street vendors in Moscow. And log
> houses on the outskirts of Tver with mud streets, no sewage, a woodcut
> from 1848. Further north, factories closed, skeletal villages where hardly
> a person could be seen.
--"Ray Evans Harrell" <mcore@nyc.rr.com>
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