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Message: [QUOTE="Whiskybreath, post: 966183, member: 3089"] I have to say that I loved the story, because long ago I read Parkinson on the building of the Pentagon (after WW2, which had been directed on the US side from a collection of tin shacks very successfully), and because I once visited the headquarters of the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, and saw an immediate parallel. The Bank was a magnificent palace of Italian marble, polished teak and vast offices incorporating vast empty desks, with tiny little people behind them, all experts in 'Solitaire'. ([size=9]They refused my company's request for an extension on our loan, which would have brought them annual interest payments of hundreds of '000s of $ and a final repayment of the capital ($12m) in favour of liquidation of our assets to realise about $250,000. They apparently did this to demonstrate a high level of fiscal discipline to a visiting World Bank nob. But I digress[/size]). The MoD is reinforcing Parkinson's views nicely. [/QUOTE]