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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: "Our Concern is Growing"
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Date: Sun, 7-Oct-84 06:14:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  7 06:14:35 1984
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I realize that this is a bit late, but something just occurred to me the other
day while I was talking about the "Our Concern is Growing" slogan.

It was suggested that this slogan was triply ambiguous, but it isn't --- it's
quadruply ambiguous. There are two basic interpretations of "concern": (1) worry
or anxiety, and (2) a company or business. Likewise, there are two basic inter-
pretations of growing: (a) increasing, and (b) causing to grow.

It should therefore be obvious that the possible number of permutations is
four:

	1-a, 1-b, 2-a, 2-b.


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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