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Old 05-01-2012, 11:10 AM
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What jumped out at me the most was the concentration on relatively small family owned businesses concentrating on specialised high tech products with very little debt to outsiders such as banks etc. The return of their profits to their own organization for RandD purposes and their emphasis on growing in house skilled apprentices. Also the fact that most of them spoke English rather well. Their 10th grade apprentices are probably better educated than US high school grads.

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