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Cody waved three stapled sheets of paper at Matt. “Have you seen this ridiculous system test document that we’ve got to meet?” he asked.

“Seen it? I wrote most of it,” Matt replied mildly.

“Oh.” Cody replied. “Sorry.”

“What’s ridiculous about it?”

“I guess I just don’t see the point. What’s it for?”

Matt leaned his chair back. “Have you heard about the ClearScan project?”

“Not much. Just that it was some kind of disaster.”

“We got that project from our sister division out in the beltway. Management there had convinced corporate that it was ready to go. The real story was that they just stopped work when the deadline arrived, but we didn’t find that out until later. Corporate said we had to ship it because marketing had ...

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