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- From: library@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Gordon Riddell)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,uk.politics
- Subject: Re: Will Shetlanders pay?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.120951.17350@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:09:51 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.163831.15776@merlin.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <8100@skye.ed.ac.uk> <8119@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- Originator: library@merlin.comlab
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- In article <8119@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >
- >In article <8100@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk I wrote:
- >
- ># Meanwhile the Danish Kroner would collapse because the sum we originally
- ># paid for the Shetlands, plus compound interest, would probably be
- ># greater than the sum of all the money in the European Community.
- >
- >But if you think about the opportunity costs, it would probably be
- >cheaper to give the Shetlands back to the Danes than to clean up the oil
- >spill.
- >
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- Yes, I think that was why I suggested that now was a good time to give it
- back.
-
- Gordon
-