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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.190438.4786@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <C0poz1.IxH@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <727563398@lear.cs.duke.edu> <C17qEo.Fn7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:04:38 GMT
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- In article <C17qEo.Fn7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >>#Anyway, a broken watch *can* show twice per day the right time,
- >>#but usually it is pretty much useless.
- >
- >>In article <C0poz1.IxH@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- >>levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- >>2) Please give some examples of government institutions who have work
- >> reasonably well for a long time.
- >
- >The San Jose State University Math/CS Department.
- >The University of Illinois Mathematics Department.
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- Technically speaking, these are not institutions. The institution in
- question here sould seem to be SJU. So the question remains, do you
- see SJU as being 'efficient'?
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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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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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