Jim Wilkins on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:04:55 -0700
(PDT) typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Jul 12, 7:58*pm, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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* * * * In something like the space program, the timeline for a return is
"too long" for a company which has to show improvements every ninety
days to keep the stockholders happy.
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tschus
pyotr

The yearly federal budget cycle with no guarantee the project won't be
cut next year to fund new social entitlements isn't much better.

Yeah. But the original program was an R&D shop and cover for
military applications (satellites).
It was also before the Entitlement Mentality set in, which even
NASA succumbed to. "Cost plus" contracts to companies in the various
important congressional districts.
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pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!