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(...) countries. (...) Maybe I used the term special interest incorrectly. I think of a special interest as being any sub-group of the population who wants public monies distributed in a certain way such that it will specifically help their sub (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not ignoring it. I just don't (personally) think they figure into my own "how should the government that is funded by MY tax dollars spend my money" equation, at least not more prominently than those "in need" in the US. Which, of course, (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Just my own $.02, the scrupulous ones are the ones who quit. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) None of these diseases have infected, and will kill, a quarter of the people in many African countries. Why is almost everyone ignoring this fact? These people are the reason we should try to find a cure. I doubt many of them have access to (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think- but I'm not sure- that it might include delivery confirmation. I know that I was sending something to someone overseas and wanted that feature, but it was so much more expensive than the regulr 60 cent airmail stamp that I decided to (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:3916E05F.6E1CE3...rve.com... (...) include (...) country. (...) I get these too, and I'm in Scotland. For me most buyers use 66c or $1 stamps. I few people just seem to use some (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hehe you too, eh! All my "win notifications" include that reminder too. A surprising number of letters with only 33c on them did get here, but there were always a few which didn't. Kevin (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I will throw my 2 cents in on this, in regards to a purchase (non lego, it was a set of MSDN cds) from ebay. I bidded on it and then after I had bidI noticed the fine print: wont ship out of us. I emailed the guy saying that I had bid and then (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Kevin Wilson <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in article <39164BAB.D5FA4312@c...ve.com>... (...) home (...) :) (...) Hi Kevin, Yes my bank cashed the USPS money order with no fuss, but they just as easily could have refused it. I was really just (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Of course our Opposition at the moment say they won't remove it, so I guess it's in for good. The current government won the last election on the back of this tax, but it's actually hard finding people willing to say they voted for it. Tax (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Some time around the early 90s IIRC. The rate has stayed the same as it was originally, despite a lot of doom and gloom at the time it was introduced that the goverment would inevitably increase the rate. OTOH, the out-of-power party at the (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Parse error alert: "they" has an ambiguous antecedent. Parents or Montessori? (arguably must be Montessori, since the method can't speak to parent level of abuse, so you can't say it's not part of the method) (...) If I could afford it, I (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: [regarding Montessori] (...) I did Montessori as a kid. I discovered that public school existed a few weeks after my first grade year started and begged my folks[1] to let me go there instead. They (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Meee tooooo! And thank goodness, I say. For if I had been able to figure out how to use those in reaction rate and heat transfer problems I would have gotten my Chemical Engineering degree instead of flagging P-Chem and taking up computers (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) and (...) Maybe it's just a gut feeling we had, but we only went from 3.5 years to just before Kindergarten started in both cases. I think the value of Montessori lessens as the child ages, we saw it more as a booster to give our kids a (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hello to any Canadians, A GST is due to be introduced in Australia in July this year. Fresh food is exempted (plus a few other things) and the rate is 10%. When was it introduced in Canada and when did the rate rise ? Have Canadians found the GST a (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ditto. Of course, the trouble with having exams etc come easy (relatively), is that at some point one reaches a subject or chunk of knowledge which requires you to WORK to understand it... andfor me at least, I'd never learned to. Took me (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I'm snipping here and there... (...) I wish the market would verify that. (...) problems (...) This last attribute is under-understood and under-emphasized in my opinion. I think the single most important thing that parents can do for their (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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