Paula Stern
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Paula Stern
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That's a huge drop. In September, what you had was in effect an embargo in the United States for about a week or so, where goods were not coming in or going out because of the attack.
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There has been so much focus on the U.S. rules and regulations and very little focus on what Cuba is going to have to do to change and reform and liberalize.
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We're going into the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, and this is where the retailers, at least, are going to make it up. The GDP figures that are boosted by consumer spending remain to be seen.
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We're focusing as much attention on software and the intellectual property that's lost in software as we are in entertainment in movies and sound on CDs and tape.