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From: wilf@sce.carleton.ca (Wilf Leblanc)
Subject: Re: Japanese-owned research labs in US
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References: <4905@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <Nov.12.13.51.06.1990.14511@yoko.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 00:14:22 GMT

halldors@yoko.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson) writes:

>In article <4905@rex.cs.tulane.edu> fs@caesar.cs.tulane.edu (Frank Silbermann) writes:

>> According to a feature in yesterday's local newspaper,
>> Japanese computer companies are now trying to open
>> labs for theoretical research _in America_,
>> by hiring top American researchers away from
>> American labs and universities.

>[stuff deleted]

>Would we like the possible alternatives: that they start attracting
>more people to move, and eventually settle in Japan? That they locate
>their research centers, say, in Canada? Or that they hire only non-U.S.
>citizens?

Sounds good to me, (locating in Canada that is).  
If you don't want research dollars, we'll take'em.


>Magnus M. Halldorsson

Wilf LeBlanc, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
wilf@sce.carleton.ca


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