Traditional project management has an unstated assumption that all along you can see something; the huge hole in the ground has been dug, the foundation is laid, steel girders are in place.
It is also important to note that throughout this process, the accounting systems are receiving updates as to where the order is and the cost incurred at each step of the process.
Later, when Sun Records owner Sam Phillips heard Elvis' soulful voice, he thought he had finally found what he had been looking for-a white man who sounded black.
And no one exulted more than Latin Americans, who see in the miners a hopeful reminder that their countries don't have to be defined by the corrupt egomaniacs who so often run them.