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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ else."</p>
 <p>I speak from personal experience. Baseball-glove leather was
 the principal product of our firm until 1957 when ball gloves
 of <ent type='NORP'>Japanese</ent> manufacture appeared and ultimately gained seventy
-percent of the <ent type='GPE'>United States</ent>' market. Today, we tan no
+percent of the United States' market. Today, we tan no
 baseball-glove leather. Sentiment in the ball-glove industry
 at that time was very strong for protective action. I
 investigated the matter in some depth and found that I could
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ was two hundred years ago when <ent type='PERSON'>Adam Smith</ent> in his treati
 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of <ent type='ORG'>The Wealth</ent> of Nations so
 brilliantly demonstrated its fallacies. Fortunately, we have
 the work of <ent type='PERSON'>Smith</ent> and his many successors, plus the empirical
-lessons on the benefits of free trade--our fifty <ent type='ORG'>state</ent>s united
+lessons on the benefits of free trade--our fifty states united
 in one common market are a notable example--to demonstrate the
 advantages of free exchange.</p>
 
-<p>No improvement can be made on <ent type='PERSON'>Smith</ent>'s understanding:</p>
+<p>No improvement can be made on Smith's understanding:</p>
 
 <p> It is the highest impertinence of kings and
 ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and
 without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in
 society. Let them look well after their own expense,
 and they may safely trust private people with theirs.
-If their own extravagance does not ruin the <ent type='ORG'>state</ent>,
+If their own extravagance does not ruin the state,
 that of their subjects never will. . . .</p>
 
 <p> To give the monopoly of the home market to the
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ domestically, such as chrome ore, diamonds, and teak wood, or
 that can be obtained more cheaply abroad, such as baseball
 gloves or textiles.</p>
 
-<p>And free trade raises wages! <ent type='ORG'>Trade</ent> between individuals,
-between <ent type='ORG'>state</ent>s, between nations is beneficial, and far from
+<p>And free trade raises wages! Trade between individuals,
+between states, between nations is beneficial, and far from
 reducing the living standards of the participants, greatly
 improves them. And the country with the freest trade policy
 enjoys the maximum advantage.</p>
@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ to hold wages down. Unemployment soon disappeared and industry
 expanded.</p>
 
 <p>Unfortunately, a false lesson was learned--that war is the
-health of the economy. (Our current secretary of <ent type='ORG'>state</ent>,
+health of the economy. (Our current secretary of state,
 justifying the military intervention in the <ent type='LOC'>Middle East</ent>,
-reflected this when he <ent type='ORG'>state</ent>d, "If you want to sum it up in
+reflected this when he stated, "If you want to sum it up in
 one word, it's jobs.") The truth, of course, is that war is
 actually the enemy of prosperity (and freedom) and that full
 employment is actually the normal condition of a truly free
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ economic freedom.</p>
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 From the June 1991 issue of <ent type='ORG'>FREEDOM DAILY</ent>,
-Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>,
+Copyright (c) 1991, The Future of Freedom Foundation,
 PO Box 9752, <ent type='GPE'>Denver</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Colorado</ent> 80209, 303-777-3588.
 Permission granted to reprint; please give appropriate credit
-and send one copy of reprinted material to the <ent type='ORG'>Foundation</ent>.
+and send one copy of reprinted material to the Foundation.
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