>>>I was speaking from a global perspective ... not a protected market.
>>>The global market is protected by the Van Allen Belts, an ozone shell and re-runs of Bugs Bunny in drag :-). But, the art of selling projects and time billing has probably been around since the inception of the oldest profession <s>.
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>>What does politics have to do with all this? (See Message #667854, <g>).
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>The "politician" stood out ("Who invented Chaos?"). That cute, but dumb, characature suites the politico well. I bet they sounded smarter before they had talking pictures<g>.
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>Who was it that said:
>"Politicians should be seen but not heard!"?
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>PS
>Is Enron managing Bolivia's water system [?] (i read they were involved in some South American water privitization schemes a few months back) - if so - time to hide your wallet!<s>
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>Terry

In Cochabamba, we had a huge scandal ca. 2 years ago with water privatization. Ca. 10 people died in the resulting "water war". I don't know of Enron being involved in the corrupt company who acquired the water rights (but didn't keep them for long).

Hilmar.