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From: chris@MIMSY.UMD.EDU (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Forecasts '87 and beyond
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Date: 17 Dec 87 21:57:22 GMT
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	From: concertina!fiddler%sun.com@bu-cs.bu.edu  (Steve Hix)

	What with product liability suits, ... this is
	about as likely to happen as any of the past post-war
	flying booms.  (No smiley.)

You are right about the liability suits.  However, there *was* a
big post-war flying boom after WWII.  Indeed, that is what built
most of the small airports that are still here today.

Chris