the first edition of the dictionary was 10 volumes long and that wascompleted in 1928 . but seven volumes was too bulky so that was rebound in a reissue as 12 volumes. we prepared a one volume which expanded into a four volume set so if you are keeping up with the math, we had 16 volumes. we thenreleased a second edition in 1989 with new material it was then 20 volumes . and then we went through the process of working out whether we could digitize it but i will get to that in a minute. new words, there's a nice new word skating which we put into the dictionary i think in the 1990s. it's a kind of caribbean dance, muskeg. i don't know whether you would know it or anyone wants to demonstrate area but we had a lot of index cards sent in by readers all around the world which is how we used to reflect in those days and now they are encouraged to send it in electronically so that it gets into our database but we have enough evidence of the word skating to want to put it into the dictionary and none of our workers seemed to know what it meant. we did at the time have a popular

wascomplete about solyndra the president was picking winners and losers.t. but all governors do, all presidents do, write gekko we like to think that we are beyond what we call industrial policy, but one thing, one push from president obama's administration has been a policy to encourage the development of green energy. this is, again, something that no government is immune from. one of the things that i'm curious to see in a administration is there will be industrial policy. they will not collect that, but what is industrial policy going to be? what values are we going to choose as a nation to express through subsidies? do we want to keep manufacturing here? how do we do that? the bigger question is, and he goes back to governor pawlenty, if you are trying to make these decisions, you want to make the economy of your state grow. that is the goal, that is the game. what is a better way to do it -- by going company by company or by saying, "we are going to educate people, we're going to infrastructure"? tim: ideallytim:, you would have an environment where