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Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 09:11:39 -0400
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> people seem *less* willing to make investments with longer payoffs!

The whole internet/telecommunications bubble was partly a result
of people making investments with longer payoffs, so long, in fact,
that they would never happen. The reaction to that has been a
contraction to projects with more immediate and forseeable returns.