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In article <ewright.725820266@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>In <1992Dec31.004513.12224@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
>
>>You misrepresent my position. All I'm saying is that new systems are
>>rarely as cheap and easy in metal as they are on paper. 
>
>You're setting up another strawman, Gary.  No one ever said that
>building launch vehicles was cheap or easy.  If it was, teenagers
>would be building them in the family garage.

Talk about strawmen!

>IMHO, anyone, in any industry, who believes a million dollars is 
>a small amount of money deserves a pink slip.

Sadly, a million just doesn't go as far as it used to. That's one
payroll for a modest 300 employee service operation. It'd keep GM
or AT&T in postage for a week. And the Federal government would 
go through it in 23 seconds. Keeping track of the pennies is a good
plan, but not if you lose sight of the real money in the process. It's
far too easy to be penny wise and pound foolish. I'd much prefer an
employee who grasps return on investment strategies and rough order
of magnitude profit/loss estimates than one who counts paper clips.

Gary
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