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Old 11-28-2007, 01:03 PM
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They are unionized to the hilt, however. The oddest thing being that non-union workers in an industry get union wages. Which, of course, is why things tend to be more than a tad pricy. A cheap country it ain't.
That is true...the law does require that wages within a company be the same for union or non-union. Though many companies practice it here without the law. Everything has to be shipped to Iceland and it's in the middle of nowhere. I think that has a lot to do with the prices too. Food, clothes, etc are ridiculous. But hotels are relatively inexpensive. Though with a falling dollar that has certainly changed.
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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.


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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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