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We make some of our greatest gains
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by Dr. Steve Mason 43

Member L.A. County Bar Association ~ FINRA Arbitrator
ACE TRUCKING
California State Bar Since 1975
Celebrating Super Lawyer status for 13 years 2007 through 2019
There’s an old saying: Close only the competition to go first every time.
counts in horseshoes and hand This was the state of the world until
grenades. Of course, you can always the 50’s. The USA had the bomb and
add Nuclear Tipped Missiles. When the the USSR didn’t so we enjoyed an
Cold War started and we weren’t advantage. But then the experimenters
accustomed to having rockets aimed at provided a second gate which
us, people worried about the mirrored the world scene. Both the
possibility of World War III. Were Americans and the Soviets had the A Sense of Purpose: Join a Service Group
humans foolish enough to exchange bomb.
weapons that might wipe out life on If you are looking for a way to give back, support women’s issues and have an
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Earth? Psychologists decided to test the This was the scary part. Both sides SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL is comprised of profes-
limits to which we might go with the had the power to defeat the other so
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was no compromise. They each took community. Motto: “To improve the lives of women and girls
Two subjects were isolated in the detour and lost money on every in local communities and throughout the world.” We welcome
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truck affixed to a map. The goal was for a hot line between nations - only made
each subject to move their truck along things worse as heated arguments
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shortest time. Since time was money, Missile Crises. Both sides continued to all programs and other locations. Collaboration is fun and we have
the subjects were paid in real money to bluster and threaten as the situation
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quickly realized that there was a thermonuclear missiles. As the two
speedy direct route which, when taken, trucking companies moved toward
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There was also a detour with twists and getting ever closer to Armageddon.
turns that would, if taken, lose money
every time. The problem was that the Look At It This Way Refreshed for the
direct route was narrow and could only
accommodate one truck at a time. The How would you have handled these
one that arrived first made more while situations? Eventually the two Smart & Savvy Adult
the one that got there second made less truckers went broke with their gates
but both still made a profit. After left firmly in place. One trucker used
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jockeying back and forth to go first, a you.” The Missile Crises had a happier
silent agreement was made and the ending but just barely. At the
trucks alternated. time, Dean Rusk was reported to have Email Subscriptions Available
said: We’re eyeball to eyeball and I
It was at that point that the think the other fellow just Interactive & Informative
psychologists gave one subject a gate. blinked. That was 1962. What has
If put up, it would force the other changed since then to make a similar
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detour. The only rational decision was Anything? Think about it.
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