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• Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading
  Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?...
• Brevity and superficiality are often concomitants. -- Amrom Katz
• Where are the calculations that go with the calculated risk? -- Amrom Katz
• Reading, writing. Who cares about arithmetic?
• Watch out for formal briefings, they often produce an avalanche.
  (Definition: A high-level snow job of massive and overwhelming proportions.) -- Amrom Katz...