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| − | Chief Products/Services : Educational and cultural software,
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| − | skillsofts, databases and archives, cultural artifacts
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| − | Business Profile :
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| − | The MacNamaras and their ETP empire balance the interests
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| − | of two Danaan-mor FamiIies, the 0'Briens and the McCarthys . The
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| − | O'Briens dominate scholastic software design, while the McCarthys
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| − | control the poetic/literary/historical areas of Tir culture . ETP handles
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| − | all the business aspects of education and culture, including the
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| − | licensing and marketing of summer schools and cultural festivals ;
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| − | licensing and manufacture of books, VR-CDs, chips, and skillsofts ;
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| − | and sales of cultural items such as sculpture, music, works of
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| − | literature, and so on . The company's wide-ranging empire gives
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| − | it a broad influence on Tir business and cultural life .
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| − | Instead of formal subdivisions specializing in different areas,
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| − | ETP uses expert teams to oversee individual products and services
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| − | . Staffers may specialize in certain areas, but must also have
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| − | a general knowledge of Tir culture . Most ETP staff regard their work
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| − | as a vocation, and feel intense loyalty to the company .
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| − | >>>>>[This place is so bizarre, I hardly know where to begin .
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| − | Consider the products of the McCarthy Group in their Killarney
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| − | forest hideout. 1 know for a fact that human hands-sorry, elven
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| − | hands-didn't produce those fabulous paintings . Wild rumours
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| − | hint at the mental fusion between the elven artists and the ally
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| − | spirits who really execute the artwork . They say magic almost
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| − | crackles off the canvases . Exhibiting unusual good taste, most
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| − | international art dealers pay big money for an MG artwork .
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| − | Or take the Limerick ivory towers and garrets, where they've
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| − | tucked away some real schizos . Mad Flaithri O'Connor spent his
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| − | last few years at the Limerick facility before his "cerebral accident"
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| − | in 2051 . Get your hands on the skillwires he dreamed up, and you
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| − | might go crazy . Or you might become the next Baudelaire . Sure
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| − | as hell they'll turn your head inside out realtime.]««<
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| − | -Tommy Mac (22 :59 :02/18-MAY-54)
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| − | »»>[ETP gets into some weird marketing and development
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| − | spins . For example, they pushed a big new line in 2050 of
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| − | ergonomically designed, learning-Favourable environments . If
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| − | you want to speed-read, scan images and extract information
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| − | super-fast, or learn how to access a database in your head through
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| − | intuitive data sorting, ETP can give you the software . Right along
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| − | with it, they can also modulate your internal biorhythms, pump
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| − | essential oils into the atmosphere, and slop the right colour paint
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| − | on your walls . Plenty of people out there pay real nuyen for the full
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| − | treatment . They tell me it works .]<<<<<
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| − | -Poguer (01 :03:11/19-MAY-54)
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| − | »»>[Just don't try getting a record deal if you have anything
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| − | worthwhile to say about how life really works .]<<<<<
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| − | -Siobhan Snakehead (02 :31 :00/19-MAY-54)
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| − | »»>[Indeed . ETP plays a vital role in suppressing free speech ;
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| − | it advises the Ministry of the Interior on the "cultural suitability" of
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| − | all media forms, as well as having its own absolute monopoly in
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| − | music publishing and licensing. They keep foreign stuff out, too,
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| − | if they don't like it ; foreign media companies may only publish and
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| − | produce their works by licensing arrangements through ETP .] <<< <<
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| − | -Tommy Mac (02:39 :12/19-MAY-54)
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