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Saturday, August 10th, 2013 12:40 am
Кстати о бойкотах: вот как делается правильный бойкот:

In March 2000 Smith & Wesson was the only major gun manufacturer to sign an agreement with the Clinton Administration. The company agreed to numerous safety and design standards as well as limits on the sale and distribution of its products. Gun clubs and gun rights groups responded to this agreement by initiating large-scale boycotts of Smith & Wesson by refusing to buy their new products and flooding the firearms market with used S&W guns. After a 40% sales slide, the sales impact from the boycotts led Smith & Wesson to suspend manufacturing at two plants.
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This agreement signed by Tomkins PLC ended with the sale of Smith & Wesson to the Saf-T-Hammer Corporation. The new company (Smith and Wesson Holding Corporation), which publicly renounced the agreement, was received positively by the firearms community.
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On 11 May 2001, Saf-T-Hammer Corporation acquired Smith & Wesson Corp. from Tomkins PLC for US$15 million, a fraction of the US$112 million originally paid by Tomkins. Saf-T-Hammer assumed US$30 million in debt, bringing the total purchase price to US$45 million.

Т.е. любовь Клинтона обошлась британским Томкинсам примерно в 67 миллионов баксов. 

[identity profile] stan podolski (from livejournal.com)
Saturday, August 10th, 2013 05:41 pm (UTC)
как бы нам нса бойкотировать
[identity profile] stan podolski (from livejournal.com)
Saturday, August 10th, 2013 05:43 pm (UTC)
а с другой стороны, если нса нужно будет из-за бойкота потратить лишние 67 миллионов, то мы просто заплатим лишние налоги. Чем мне всегда и нравился гавернментальный бизнес