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HH
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Rhiannon

Subj: Re: And now the answer.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 02:41:19 pm EDT
Reply Subj: And now the answer.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 01:44:15 pm EDT


> > This actually triggered flashbacks to the Three Day Week when I was a child - less, of course, the preponderance of electric gadgets. Classrooms were simpler then...

> Umm... I'm afraid this makes next to no sense to me.

In the 1970s a series of national strikes in the coal and power industries led to major blackouts and the shutdown of industry and some schools for all but three days each week - the "Three Day Week".