FW: Welcome to the Future!

1999-07-21 Thread Thomas Lunde
Title: FW: Welcome to the Future! Fuel prices jolt drivers Ontario studies price freeze as industry claims 'price war' over Pauline Tam The Ottawa Citizen; With files from The Canadian Press Chris Mikula, The Ottawa Citizen / In the past year, gasoline at this west-end service station has

FW put it in perspective (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread S. Lerner
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:01:59 -0400 Carl Iddings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Fw: "Booming" US Economy (Fwd)] Facts About The "Booming" U.S. Economy In the 1970s, the top 1 percent of households had about 20 percent of the national wealth. This was widely

FW: Re: Cdn brain drain

1999-07-21 Thread pete
(tidying up the formatting a bit) Michael Gurstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted: From: Jim Peers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skilled talent leaving Canada, Swiss study finds High taxes blamed: Canada ranks 36th for ability to retain

FW: Re: Welcome to the Future

1999-07-21 Thread pete
"Thomas Lunde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted: Fuel prices jolt drivers Ontario studies price freeze as industry claims 'price war' over Pauline Tam The Ottawa Citizen; With files from The Canadian Press Chris Mikula, The Ottawa Citizen / In the past year, gasoline at this west-end service station

Re: FW: Welcome to the Future! (gas prices)

1999-07-21 Thread Christoph Reuss
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Thomas Lunde wrote: With regret, I cannot find a posting, I'm sure I saved which stated that the real cost of a gallon of gasoline was $15, when all the subsidies, tax breaks and special regulatory exemptions were added into the price of crude oil. The International

Re: Cdn brain drain confirmed - in National Article - Jul 21 (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Ed Weick
I believe the Association of Canadian Universities (or whatever the proper title is) did a study recently which indicated that the notion of a brain drain is greatly overblown, and is in fact largely a ploy by business to support calls for tax cuts. While I'm not to sure of my ground here

Re: War, Confucious and the CBD

1999-07-21 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Robert, My library book on Keynsian economics says basically the same thing. If your economy is in trouble start a war. (I can hear the apologist's keyboards rattle, "Marx wasn't an economist and Keynes didn't mean it.") One of the things that no one would consider (because it doesn't fit,

Re: Humour: IMPORTANT VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!! (it's ok, it is funny) (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Eva Durant wrote: A virus called WORK is on the loose... If you receive any sort of work at all, whether via e-mail, internet, or simply handed to you by a colleague... DO NOT OPEN IT! The work virus has been circulating around our building for months and those who have been tempted to

Re: FW: Welcome to the Future! (gas prices)

1999-07-21 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Christoph Reuss wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Thomas Lunde wrote: With regret, I cannot find a posting, I'm sure I saved which stated that the real cost of a gallon of gasoline was $15, when all the subsidies, tax breaks and special regulatory exemptions were added into the price of crude

Re: Humour: IMPORTANT VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!! (it's ok, it is funny) (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Christoph Reuss
Brad wrote: I have a friend who is either a computer genius or close to it. ... He would often say (in a somewhat pointed tone of voice:): Time for a work break! Do you know why those big computers are called "workstation" ? A trainstation is where the train stops. A workstation is

Re: Cdn brain drain confirmed - in National Article - Jul 21 (fwd)

1999-07-21 Thread Michael Spencer
Ed Weick said about the brain drain issue: The fact that "The Swiss report, [is] based on a survey of 4,160 leading business executives" makes me just a little suspicious of the possibility of self-serving motives. Yeh. I'd like to see a breakdown by occupation. I wonder how the figures