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WHEN SANDRA MARTIN, an engineer with fifteen years’ experience in a major federal research agency, received a call from the agency director asking her to come back to headquarters to help straighten out some problems that had arisen with a major engineering effort, she was more than ready to make the move. She was at the end of a two-year special assignment at an agency field office where she had put together a cooperative research program with several regional universities. While she had met her mandate of successfully negotiating with participating universities and opening up the closed culture of the agency research staff, she was ready to get back into engineering. Just one week after receiving the call, Sandra ...

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