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<DIV>I'm old enough to remember my parents telling me that products marked
'Empire made' i.e. Hong Kong were rubbish and that was over 60 years ago.</DIV>
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<DIV>Blame end-users who chase the cheapest price.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr> One imagines, seemingly foolishly, that the
low production costs in a certain eastern nation would be so low that
additional quality could be built included at an acceptable selling
price.</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr> One is so often
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