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pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure
It followed Dell into custom manufacturing, but while Dell moved into computers-as-capital-goods (selling servers and business systems), Gateway followed home computing down the consumer electronics rathole .
This is not to say that more money might not make the difference, but the system is not binary, and we could well just be pouring more US money down a bottomless rathole .
It's rather appropriate that the logo for Disney is a mouse, because The Walt Disney Company this week announced its intention to throw money down a rathole .
The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell.
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