Much of the new oil is of inferior quality, selling for less than a third of average international prices.

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Government-supported industries end up suffering from excess capacity, making products that are inferior in quality to those produced by overseas competition, and yet too costly for local consumers.

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While the professors have made quite a stir in the press, Corning points out that the fiber produced by the professors has not come up to the quality of the existing Corning fiber--inferior in the important broad band qualities needed for carrying the varied communications of the future.

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