From: rosen@kranz.enet.dec.com (Jim Rosenkranz)
Subject: Re: Metal powder,steel,iron.
Reply-To: rosen@kranz.enet.dec.com (Jim Rosenkranz)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
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In article <79557@cup.portal.com>, mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
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|>From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
|>Newsgroups: misc.invest,misc.forsale
|>Subject: Re: Metal powder,steel,iron.
|>Message-ID: <79557@cup.portal.com>
|>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 08:53:51 PDT
|>Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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|>I just love these posts from the ex-Soviet Union.  Among the cars, dinette
|>sets, video cameras, etc. every now and then an ad pops up for bee venom,
|>RED OXIDE OF MERCURY, cobalt (100 tons minimum order), etc.  Don't they
|>have garage sales in Russia?   :-)
|>

It really doesn't strike me as very funny. It is rather indicative of what
a crisis their economy is in. I imagine they are in desparate need of
markets to sustain industries and people which are nolonger under central
control of the government.
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Jim Rosenkranz	rosen@kranz.enet.dec.com

"Never try to teach a pig to sing: it can't be done, and it annoys the pig."
