and righted it. on this issue of staffing so the people do not change. they are very professional and very good and capable of a lot of very good thinking. what changes is in terms of the leadership. the leadership weakens very dramatically. this goes back to the point as well. it has to do with aging and health and a lot of things that happen and that's the period in the late 1970s and is what i see is the best staffing in the world could not have dealt with it because there's a vacuum at the top. there's an inability to translate all of those abilities

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