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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: mfriesel@ix.netcom.com
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:35:15 -0700
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Article: 16763 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: alt.agriculture.misc, alt.org.earth-first, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.greens, alt.save.the.earth, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.agriculture, sci.econ, sci.energy, sci.environment, talk.environment, tor.general
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Organization: Netcom
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Reply-To: mfriesel@ix.netcom.com
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> >I note:
> >
> >For the last decade or so (when I had more money than I needed) I made a
> >point of occasionally offering people $5 - $20 no strings attached. I
> >probably did this about 200 times. One girl working at a hotel check-in
> >counter took $5, she refused it the first time and said hers was the
> >only one in the hotel which could not take tips, so I told her it wasn't
> >a tip. A divorced Mormon woman living at her mother's with her teen-age
> >son at work took $20, and asked me four or five times if I was sure I
> >wanted to give that much money away.
I should have included that no-one else ever took the money.
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