Communications Failure

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“Hansen, you’d better have some answers!” Brad Mitchell, VP of Operations, bellowed. “Since you introduced Eliminall our stock has plummeted, and it’s still falling!”

David Hansen, Advanced Agricultural Engineering’s Senior Research Director, glanced nervously at the angry faces of the executive committee around the huge, Synthi-Oak table. Clearing his throat, he began, “Uhm… gentlemen, I believe we’ve isolated the problem.

“As you know, Eliminall is the market’s first selective, wide-spectrum, nanoengineered herbicide and bio-nutritional enhancer. The Eliminall solution not only destroys unwanted weeds, but rapidly breaks them down, at a molecular level, into nutrients the target crop can easily use.”

A hand rose in the back of the room. “You mean, Eliminall is a weed and feed.”

Laymen! Hansen thought, cringing. Putting on his best smile, he said, “An excellent analogy! But by using specifically programmed nanoengineered machines, Eliminall is a very intelligent weed and feed.”

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