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A number of different approaches are being tried...
- We are still pissing in the wind.
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Extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach
to the problem...
- We just hired three kids fresh out of college.
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Close project coordination...
- We know who to blame.
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Major technological breakthrough...
- It works OK, but looks very hi-tech.
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Customer satisfaction is delivered assured...
- We are so far behind schedule the customer is happy to get it delivered.
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Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive...
- The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.
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Test results were extremely gratifying...
- We are so surprised that the stupid thing works.
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The entire concept will have to be abandoned...
- The only person who understood the thing quit.
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It is in the process...
- It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is about hopeless.
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We will look into it...
- Forget it! We have enough problems for now.
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Please note and initial...
- Let's spread the responsibility for the screw up.
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Give us the benefit of your thinking...
- We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with
what we've already done.
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Give us your interpretation...
- I can't wait to hear this bull!
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'See me' or 'Let's discuss'...
- Come into my office, I'm lonely.
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All new...
- Code not interchangeable with the previous design.
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Years of development...
- It finally worked!
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Low maintenance...
- Impossible to fix if broken.
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Quality Assured Design....
- We'll bombard you with meaningless forms, especially if you complain.
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Quality Assured System...
- We'll bombard you with meaningless forms only if you complain.
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Modular Design...
- Seventeen different programmers worked on it, with no management. We're hoping...
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Object Oriented Design...
- Seventeen different programmers worked on it, with little management. We're praying...
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Modular, Object Oriented Design...
- Seventeen different programmers worked on it. We're desperate.
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Modular, Object Oriented Client / Server Design...
- We're stuffed.
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Industry Standard...
- It works sometimes.
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User Friendly...
- It works sometimes.
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Office Compatible...
- It sometimes works when Office is present.
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Made for Win95...
- It falls over less often under Win95 than NT.
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Cross-Platform...
- Use it on any platform - you'll be cross.
November '96
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