From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Morris Dovey"  wrote in message   
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   > ...   
   > I've also observed that it isn't at all unusual for a project   
   > manager to tell people to disregard possibly interesting finds   
   > because of schedule/budget constraints. More than one project   
   > manager has referred to keeping his team focused on the department's   
   > mission as being "like herding cats."   
   >   
   > --   
   > Morris Dovey   
      
   I was sucked into the Army before I could go on to grad school, so I   
   know of only academic research in Chemistry. I received NSF research   
   grants and worked in the lab all summer after my freshman, sophomore   
   and junior years. Then they ended grad school deferments and I spent   
   the senior year summer in the theatre program, learning to boss an   
   unwilling set-building crew.   
      
   In academic research at least the professors saved up strange findings   
   for future grad student research projects.   
      
   Later I ran R&D labs at MITRE and saw the tighter, more disciplined   
   focus you described. However some people pursued promising ideas on   
   their own until they could raise support.   
   http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/gps-modernization/the-origin   
   -gps-part-1-9890?page_id=1   
      
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