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FLASHBACK

By Anonymous
Publication: Government Executive
Date: Tuesday, March 15 2005

What we were saying in the pages of Government Executive in decades past...

10 YEARS AGO: "Many thousands of baby boomers who joined the federal government years ago are now coming to realize that their dreams of continuing upward mobility will not come true."

20 YEARS AGO: "NASA now estimates

that, by 1990, the cost of a space shuttle launch will be covered each time by charges to the launch customers."

30 YEARS AGO: "There is an apparently indestructible myth that government managers are, by and large, inept and their private sector counterparts are, by and large, highly competent."

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