On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:11:54 -0400, Tom Watson
wrote:

(WARNING - THIS IS A LONG AND BORING STORY ABOUT **** UPS IN THE
MANUFACTURING WORLD - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)



Beautiful story and nicely written. The cause and effect was
strikingly simular to issues I had to investigate to find out why
things are the way they are. Unfortunalely, in goverment no one
wanted to take the hit or listen to a long litany towards a solution
(engineers in particular AKA 50%ers), but were more that willing to
steal the accolades of a fix that some else did.

This story could have begun as "For want of a horseshoe nail".

P