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“Who said that? WHO SAID THAT!?”
“Who said that? WHO SAID THAT!?”


But there is no reply: just another awkward pause. But, by means of something that, all will later protest, may have been serendipitous background dealing-floor banter, the damage is done. The remark has articulated only what every controller was quietly thinking, and it fortifies them in their opposition.  The deal is destined for a watery grave, thousands of leagues below the mid-Atlantic shipping channel it was meant to finance.
But there is no reply: just another awkward pause. But, by means of something that, all will later protest, may have been serendipitous background dealing-floor banter, the damage is done. The remark has articulated only what every controller was quietly thinking, and it fortifies them in their opposition.  The deal is destined for a watery grave, thousands of leagues below the Atlantic shipping channel it was meant to finance.


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