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Profits: A Matter of Life and Death

Brencis Wrote: Jun 27, 2010 5:34 PM
In South Africa, complaining about too many customers is a national sport. My wife found a local store that had this really great new food product. Three weeks later they stopped carrying the product. Why? It was just too much work trying to keep it on the shelves, too many people were buying it. We get asked to use less electricity all the time. Not to save the environment but because the company can't handle supply to the growing middle class.

It is an anniversary one does not celebrate, but mourn. The pain is still fresh — piercing and overwhelming for the loved ones of the nine Washington, D.C.-area residents killed in the crash of two red-line Metro trains near the border of D.C. and Maryland on June 22, 2009.

In our grief, we realize that accidents do happen, that even terrible mishaps, which snatch away lives and devastate those of us left behind, cannot always be prevented.

But out of love of life — for both those departed and those remaining, including the 70...

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