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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: An Everyday Lesson
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 13:28:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 13:28:28 1986
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> My rhetorical question:  How often have we seen the correct technical or
> operational decision overturned by "higher management" because of the politics
> of the situation?  Fortunately, most of us don't work in places where the cost
> of doing that is measured in lives, billions of dollars, and national prestige.

Rhetorical question #2: what fraction of the past (successful) launches
have gone on despite objections by at least one of the myriad engineers
in the various companies that make the various parts of the shuttle?