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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
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Subject: Re: Divestiture, Business and the General Public
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Date: 16 Aug 89 15:54:38 GMT
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>I just want to call home! I eventually succeeded, but I vowed to fight
>any similar efforts to deregulate Canada's telecommunications industry.

>Digression: airline deregulation is similarly bad. The benefits are
>lost in the enormously higher risks as airlines ignore safety (take
>Eastern Airlines, for example, (please?)).

>Richard Sargent                   Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP
>Systems Analyst                   UUCP:     uunet!pantor!richard

You picked a poor analogy by criticizing airline deregulation's effect
on safety.  In fact, according to a recent article in the _Economist_,
the decline in accidents & deaths per US aviation passenger mile has
continued unabated, even throughout the past decade of deregulation.
The truth is not that airline deregulation has led to "enormously
higher risks"; rather, deregulation has had little effect on the
historically increasing airline safety level.

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