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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
- References: <726783106@lear.cs.duke.edu> <C0poz1.IxH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <727563398@lear.cs.duke.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:42:23 GMT
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- gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
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- >#Please distinguish between government and nonprofit institutions;
- >#the government is much much stronger, and this power attracts the
- >#people who abuse power.
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- >#Anyway, a broken watch *can* show twice per day the right time,
- >#but usually it is pretty much useless.
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- >In article <C0poz1.IxH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- >levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
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- >>I've seen quite a few government/nonprofit institutions that *do*
- >>work reasonably well. The best seem to be better than any
- >>private institutions I've been involved with.
-
- >1) Please distinguish between government and nonprofit institutions.
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- >2) Please give some examples of government institutions who have work
- > reasonably well for a long time.
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- The San Jose State University Math/CS Department.
- The University of Illinois Mathematics Department.
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- I have been happier with *these* institutions (although they're
- not perfect) than any profit institutions I was ever involved with.
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