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Dismissing Disagreement (10) Craig Barrett
“The topic of outsourcing or offshoring is popular in the press today. You shouldn’t think of offshoring as a recent phenomenon. This has been happening for decades. It seems the press has just discovered it recently because it is an election cycle, especially in the United States.”
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