EAMONN Butler of the Adam Smith.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20070614
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EAMONN Butler of the Adam Smith Institute muses in a memo to members: 'Have you noticed how IT people resemble drug dealers? They both call their clients "users" and though both will give you a fix over the phone, you'll pay a lot for it.

And how their clients are over the moon when their stuff works, but want to kill them when it doesn't?' Should the director of an august institute named after the world's greatest economic thinker, pictured, be so conversant about drug dealers?

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