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happen in our lifetimes. In fact, I would like to see it
happen early in 1998 as a final report.
So, I guess, my proposal, and I would like to
hear Harold's response to this, is that we have a very
ambitious second draft of the report which we hope will be
either the penultimate or the near penultimate version of
the report.
DR. SHAPIRO: Thank you, Tom.
I think we have decided, as Tom just indicated,
to take the first draft that we are at least almost
satisfied with and issue that as an interim report, wait
for some comments like 30 days, and then with our own
analysis go back and see if we cannot produce a final
report.
I would say, Tom, there is a big area between
30 days and our life times, I hope. So we will have to see
just how much time we have there.
But I think we will spend a large amount of
intensive staff time on this report in the next month and
it would be extremely helpful to us and to the quality of
what we are able to do ourselves if those of you who have,
one, challenging ideas that you think need careful
consideration if you would write them down so that we can
analyze them as carefully as possible because we will make