npr report
J. Eric Townsend
jet at nas.nasa.gov
Fri Apr 30 12:49:16 PDT 1993
from the NPR report:
> "The mechanism is very much like what the real estate agents do with
> houses. Right, they take you to show you a house and they don't have a
> key to that house in their pockets. But they get to the house, and
> there's a lock box hanging on the front door. And they have a master key
> in their pockets, and they open the lock box, and take out the key to the
> door, and open the front door, and go in and show you the house."
This is a *wonderful* analogy. Imagine if one could not buy a set of
locks for their house w/o buying the government lock-box to go beside
the front door.
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