Learning from their mistakes?

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Learning from their mistakes?

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Embracing competition American style could turn out to be an expensive mistake, says Donald Light. In the first of a series of five articles he explains how bad advice and underfunding could turn the American dream into a British nightmare.

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D Light. 1990-10-04. Learning from their mistakes?. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10107124/

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