In short, investors believe they are flexible and adaptive, but their investments move in a straight line forever.

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Bottom line: no technology reigns supreme forever, but we don't see plasma giving up the picture quality crown just yet and we don't think Europe will be refusing to sell plasmas en masse, either.

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And you know, he said something in his speech that I thought was - of all the things that he actually said in the speech, that I thought was truly profound was one small line, that these distractions will go on forever in any election.

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While fighting ALAM, he started producing and changed manufacturing forever with the development of the assembly line.

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Thus, since the military would no longer require any new C-17s, the one active American manufacturing line that is capable of building wide body military transport plane would be allowed to go dormant - possibly forever.

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