In a message dated 1/9/98 3:42:24 PM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

> The whole process is set up to
>  worry the hell out of them until they give you a crumb with which to sop up
>  what's left in the bottom of the bowl in order that they may maintain some
>  semblance of their project schedule.

Not only do you get a crumb at the end, but you have to fight like crazy to
even get a place at the table, in spite of all the reverent talk of
"consultation."  And once they have SAID they will give you a crumb,
sometimes, when all is said and done, the crumb has been forgotten, all is
lost, and there is little remedy.

MKrugman