One recent visitor there wanted advice on an unfair-dismissal suit he is bringing against a foreign joint-venture.

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" Patricia Beck, a "bunny-suit" worker in a clean-room lab, tells a visitor, "Let me know when you find out what it is we're supposed to be.

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The desk is big, too, but so is the man who greets a visitor, wearing Air Jordan sandals and a rumpled tailored suit, and has just returned from a week abroad on business.

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