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- From: josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes)
- Subject: Two days in the belly of the bureaucracy
- Message-ID: <josh.722196549@mowgli>
- Keywords: feds, salmon, string
- Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Washington
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:09:09 GMT
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- I spent two days in meetings in Portland at the Bonneville
- Power Administration, discussing what to do to save the salmon
- runs in the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
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- At one point, one of the participants inexplicably began
- referring to salmon as "Amazon Guppies".
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- A consultant described a task he thought of as useless as
- "pushing on the end of a wet string".
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- The group leader managed to use the phrase "flood control"
- five times in a single sentence.
-
- I didn't fall asleep. Not once. Having a quadruple short
- mocha every morning helps enormously.
-
- -the doctor
-
- --
- Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
- josh@mowgli.cqs.washington.edu 206 543-5004
- Let's talk about your car. It's screaming, "Wash me please!"
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