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And that was believed at one time around here, 17, 18 years ago.
But the way the world really works out there is that printers stand
in line to get such an account. It's an important account with any
publisher, any printer.
And it's a problem dealing with the outside or on the inside, but
it's much less of a problem dealing on the outside. But we didn't
go into the press operation in England because we wanted to••• The
mistake was made by the same people, and they tied us up for 30 or
40 years. And we've tried unsuccessfully to get rid of the press
and get rid of the long term lease, but we were unable to. So having
it and being stuck, like the fellow falling out of the aircraft
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that
is a condition we have to live with. We tried hard to get rid of
everything and just could not do it. And then we said, "Okay, now
we have to make the best of it. Let's try to land on our feet."
And we did. So, having landed on our feet there, after that much
effort, that doesn't mean we want to go out and try it again here.
I don't think it would be a good idea. I think you see the quality
of the PLAIN TRUTH and QUEST magazine and what have you. We don't
have any touble getting quality products at the right price. And,
even though there are problems of getting paper and finding holes
in the publisher's schedules to put in new publications as they might
come along, we have a very able group of people here who, working
in coordination with Editorial, do see that what we have to get out
gets out.
QUESTION: Is there any progress on the employee suggestion program?
RADER: I don't think so. I thought that I'd said if there were no
employee suggestion programs that were formalized by department mana
gers and there were no such thing as an employee suggestion box, they
could consider that I would be such a box.
Here's this question that came up fthe envelope Mr. Rader found on
the podium earlierJ. I'll see that this gets airing immediately by
sending it to Mr. Cole. And I imagine some decision will be made
by his office very quickly, now that he knows it's a problem. Till
this was raised, he wouldn't be aware of it. Time for one more.
That's it, then?
Okay. Thank you very much. And we'll see you in about six weeks.