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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (8026)	12/9/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Bob Bryenton	Respond to of 62549

If 99.9% is good enough for you, then... 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled every hour. (That might be an improvement) 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year (That would be a definite improvement) 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year. (Another BIG improvement) 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrectcardholder information on their magnetic strips 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections ( So - who'd notice?) A typical day would be 24 hours long - give or take 86.4 seconds