From: "Weston T. Pan" <wywtpan2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:33:14 -0700
Date: 2002-08-24T03:29:37+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D66FE7A.AF0183AA@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnamcv5p.g58.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol wrote:
>
[snip ]
> This reminds of the 60 minutes program I saw two days ago. I guess it
> was aired last week or earlier in the US, but a TV station here in
> Norway sends the programs after midnight every Wednesday. Anyway it was
> about a textile mill in the US that burned down. I have forgotten the
> name but I think their products (winter clothing) are called Polytech or
> something like that. Now what happened was that the owner decided he
> wanted to rebuild the factory in the US and not move out of the country
> as most of this industry does apparently. He also continued to pay the
> workers full wages until the new factory was built. For this he got a
> lot of credit and recognition. And as he said (I don't remember the
> exact words) in the interview: "It doesn't look good for the state of
> USA that when you do the right thing (in terms of moral) you get all
> this attention and credit. Just for doing the right thing!"
>
This was a story about the Malden Mills textile company. By the way, the
fabric was called Polartec.
--Weston
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2002-08-16 8:48 Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-16 9:14 ` Steffen Huber
2002-08-16 11:22 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-17 15:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 21:29 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 0:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-20 21:21 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 12:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 13:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 13:07 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 14:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 19:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 5:43 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-22 6:30 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 17:30 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 2:01 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 4:00 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 5:24 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 20:00 ` Excessive quoting and Outlook (was: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?) Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 22:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 21:57 ` mailers, quoting text etc. (was " Robert Dewar
2002-08-25 3:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-27 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-31 14:02 ` chris.danx
2002-08-31 13:58 ` chris.danx
2002-08-25 6:20 ` Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? tmoran
2002-08-26 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 4:42 ` tmoran
2002-08-30 19:21 ` data on cla messages, was " tmoran
2002-08-31 12:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-31 16:21 ` tmoran
2002-08-31 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 3:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 19:31 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-22 22:49 ` tmoran
2002-08-23 14:52 ` Software Economics was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 16:26 ` OT: " Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-23 18:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 3:33 ` Weston T. Pan [this message]
2002-08-24 5:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 13:16 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-26 9:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-26 12:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-26 14:25 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-27 10:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-27 19:10 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-27 22:23 ` Bill
2002-08-27 12:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-27 13:04 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-24 0:11 ` Software Economics Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 13:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 17:55 ` Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Preben Randhol
2002-08-23 18:03 ` Darren New
2002-08-23 18:39 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-23 19:15 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 17:14 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 22:47 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 17:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-26 22:49 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-24 1:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-27 18:43 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-27 18:52 ` tmoran
2002-08-29 13:36 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 2:05 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 7:28 ` tmoran
2002-08-24 21:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 13:40 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-22 23:11 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-22 6:50 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-22 13:49 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-23 9:29 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-24 2:19 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-27 5:57 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-27 19:27 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-28 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 12:59 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-28 22:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-24 2:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 20:12 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-24 23:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-25 15:53 ` SteveD
2002-08-25 16:48 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-26 7:12 ` John R. Strohm
2002-08-21 19:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-22 8:19 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-22 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-29 16:03 ` Tucker Taft
2002-08-29 21:36 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-31 1:58 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-30 14:19 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-30 17:14 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-02 20:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:00 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 19:52 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-20 20:50 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:34 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:25 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 0:08 ` BSCrawford
2002-08-22 1:19 ` Larry Hazel
2002-08-22 1:45 ` SteveD
2002-08-22 3:23 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 10:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 19:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 18:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 17:16 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-20 20:40 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:45 ` Richard Riehle
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