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"The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix."
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"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."

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"That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change."

"There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution."

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