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- From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
- Subject: Re: Democratic Whiners Can't Take It
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.020422.14913@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov17.162705.24794@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> <1992Nov20.230532.24506@rchland.ibm.com> <grendel.722305682@camelot>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:04:22 GMT
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- In article <grendel.722305682@camelot> grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea) writes:
- >In <1992Nov20.230532.24506@rchland.ibm.com> jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov17.162705.24794@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>, krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >>|> "We will bury you! We will bury you! We will bury you!"
- >>|> - some ex-Soviet leader
- >>|> krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu
- >
- >>It was Kruschev. And he meant economically bury us.
- >
- >Who knows what Nikita meant. But I don't subscribe to this point of view. :)
- >
-
- Actually, this is probably what he meant. At the time, the Soviet
- economy was expanding at twice the rate of the US economy. I believe
- forecasters noted that the Soviet GNP would be larger than the US GNP
- by around, oh, 1990.
-
- Forecasters also predicted flying cars for everyone, for that matter.
-
-
- A cartoon found in last week's New Yorker:
- Picture: Middle-aged man talking to another middle-aged man in a bar.
- Caption: "I just heard that Superman is going to die. He's the same
- age I am!"
-