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Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive

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From: Scott Weiser
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:00
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On 30 Apr 1998 05:14:52 GMT, bentley@access4.digex.net (Bentley)
wrote:

>Scott Weiser (weiser@dimensional.com) said something like:
>: There is a union hall down off of 58th Avenue just east of I25 which
>: has a sign which says "no foreign cars in this lot", and they can
>: indeed tow you away if you park there.
>
>Heh. So if I show up in a Corolla and somebody else shows up in a Prizm...
>who gets towed?
>
>This silly stuff made some sense in 1975, but today one could argue
>foreign or domestic for about 1/3 of the cars sold -- Chevy Camaros are
>built in Canada, but Accords are built in Ohio. GM owns half of Saab, Ford
>owns Jaguar and a big chunk of Mazda; so is my 900S American or Swedish?
>Is a 626 (built by UAW workers in Michigan) American or Japanese?
>
>Not beating up on you, Scott -- I realize you're just the messenger :)

I agree, it's silly, but that's Unionism for you....

Regards,

Scott Weiser

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From: weiser@dimensional.com (Scott Weiser)
Subject: Re: Mgt. at work dictating the car you drive
Date: 1998/04/30
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