In a message dated 8/4/98 10:47:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << And I lost a lot of hope that any small family business was going to weather the storms as many of us 40-somethings begin to get tired, and our folks (partners) begin to get sick........ >> I was told last week about an 80's collapse of a concrete building in CT that wiped out the CT concrete builders in one shot, mostly Portugese and from an extended family. No workers to supplement those that died, the concrete hi- rise industry in CT went into hibernation. I find these examples not important for being gruesome, but as extreme illustrations that the resource of trade craft needs to be maintained. ][<en