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- From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
- Subject: Re: Honest Engineers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.060940.15182@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:09:40 GMT
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- rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
- >From AIChExtra, December 1992 (typos are mine):
- >
- >While only 12 percent of people polled say honesty and ethical standards
- >are high for US senators and congressional representatives, 45 percent
- >think that description fints America's enginers. As reported in the
- >October 1 issue of 'USA TODAY', doctors were the only professional group
- >to outrank (at 54 percent) engineers in the honesty and ethics sweepstakes.
- >College teachers tied with engineers. Journalists came in at 26 percent;
- >lawyers, 22 percent [apologies to Dick Schulze]; business executives, 21
- >percent; and building contractors, 20 percent.
- >
- >
- >Merry merry.
- >Ray
-
-
- [typos ack'd, but I'm'a gonna fun' em anyway]
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-
- I'm sure I speak for, well, myself, when I reply that I, for one, am really
- _finted_ about this. Absolutely, Unquestionably, Wholeheartedly.
-
- How high are honesty and ethical standards among poll respondents these days,
- anyway?
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- Oh, and that looks like a 10&1/2D to me, so it sure does... I guess I will.
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- Happy! Happy! Joyous! Joyous!
- Bob "Honest engin'!" O'Bob
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