Scenario: Open architecture prevails, PC makers win, Apple loses ground .

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We can't go back to a bubble-and-burst economy based on reckless speculation and spending beyond our means, where a relative few do spectacularly well while the middle class loses ground.

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But if it loses any more ground, Bavarians may one day find that they have an opposition after all.

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In the original song, Ground Control loses radio contact with the astronaut, Major Tom, implying that the mission has failed.

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But, once he boosts her to safer ground, he loses his foothold, his love gazing down at him from the ledge.

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