Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
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