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For example: Suppose you are under contract to deliver widgets
to General Motors, or to deliver soft-drink syrup to McDonald's.
The buyer wants the stuff fully up to specifications, and exactly
on time. Now suppose that due to a flood or whatever, you are
unable to obtain the components and ingredients you need. If
you fail to make the delivery, there will be severe sanctions.
You could easily go bankrupt. Real-world businesses worry about
this all the time. The contract forces you to worry about it,
because as bad as your losses might be, the buyer's losses are
even greater, if you fail to make the delivery.
Incompetent attorneys here -- I though contracts include outs due to "acts of 'god'".
On 07/10/2012 02:49 PM, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:
Education as a welfare for the society *at large* is mostly a 20tha) Even if it were true, it would be irrelevant.
century construct in this country.
-- Spacetime is a 20th-century construct; that doesn't mean it is
a bad idea.
-- Similarly, antibiotics such as penicillin etc. are a 20th-century
construct; that doesn't mean they are a bad idea.
-- And so forth.
b) It's not true anyway. Horace Mann (1796 – 1859) would have
been amused to learn that public education was a "20th-century
construct."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Mann
c) Calling it "welfare" is nothing but name-calling. It is not an
acceptable substitute for actual evidence or reasoning.
thank-you.
I was going to point out much earlier from Germany.
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