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| Sometimes it seems as if in this 21st Century America, the practice of writing thank you notes has gone the way of buggy whips. Will it wither away, like the buggy whip, or transform itself into new, unimagined forms? Levitt used the buggy whip industry as an illustration of an industry with a death sentence that no amount of product improvement would have changed. |
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buggy whip - a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy; "since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded"