Without deprecating the valiant efforts of those who have struggled to provide American troops with quality CW protective gear, antidotes, reconnaissance, detection and analysis equipment, etc.

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In my discipline, for example, each school differs slightly on how to teach general chemistry, varies in where inorganic chemistry is placed in the plan of study, and has different laboratory equipment and thus varying lab curricula, etc.

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The attendant elimination or dramatic slowing of virtually all modernization programs, reduction in maintenance of worn-out weapon systems and other equipment, diminished training and other benefits, etc.

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Take, for example, the semiconductor market: Here you have a market that has created employment sectors on its own merit, but has also created support markets in software, fabrication equipment, assembly, packaging, test and chemicals, etc.

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Without market reforms, including more transparent pricing for consumers but also for doctors and hospitals themselves (medical equipment, drugs, hospital beds, etc. are all badly sheltered from competition, for instance) universal insurance could become far too expensive and lead to supply shortages.

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Sociologists could have a field day with this question, but the explanation could be something as simple as the fact that people who live in cities are relatively insulated from how difficult and challenging it can be to produce the food, energy, equipment, devices, etc.

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Some firms see more value in retaining earnings and plowing them back into the firm buying equipment, hiring, buying competitors, buying back stock, etc.

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