[PRCo] Re: Heard on PBS

Joshua Dunfield joshuad at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Mar 3 23:58:47 EST 2005


Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, John Swindler wrote:
> 
> > You must be referring to Port Authority Transit, which relys on the public's
> > short memory.  The answer to your question was covered in the November 27,
> > 2002 WTAE-TV's Jim Parson's report.  The title is "Team 4 investigates PAT
> > spending" if anyone is interested in looking it up.
> 
> http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/team4/1808462/detail.html
> 
> Short summary: the stuff that they're spending? it's money.

I like how we're told that "it adds up", but we're not told what it
adds up *to*.  Maybe because it wouldn't sound that impressive?

(And heaven forfend that PAT try to grease the wheels of a major
supplier...)

-j.



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