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U.S. manufacturers, moreover, inevitably acquire a vested interest in improving the accuracy and reliability of Chinese rockets, since failures, such as the 1996 crash that destroyed Loral and Hughes satellites, are very costly.
But tenure is at best a partial solution to the incentive problem, because even a tenured professor shares only a fraction of his institution's successes and failures.
One example is a book on bureaucratic failures, which is based entirely on GAO reports of management problems in different agencies over a considerable period of time (Pierce, 1981).
As the prototypes are tested, failures occur and, in fact, are desired so that the product's design can be made more reliable.
Even though Kosovo was the West's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed, calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars "pale in comparison" with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.