[CAUT] assistant position

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Don writes: 
<<  This administration wants to see a  
quantitative argument. In other words, "Show Me the Money Savings!"  
At this point I have come up with zip in the way of a good argument.  
Has anyone out there used a dollars and cents approach that helped or  
actually worked in your favor? >>

    I would suggest presenting the results of two approaches, what is being 
done now, and how much it is costing, and the hypothetical scenario of what 
your are suggesting and how much it would cost. 
    You can make the hypothetical scenario anything you want it to be, there 
is no proof and they would have to have outside "objective" expertise equal to 
yours to test the hypothesis.  This will make it difficult for them to rebut 
what your projections are, and hopefully, require that they give it a try to 
find out.  
     If, in your projected new arrangement, there is a 25% savings over 5 
years, that might make a case for spending the amount that would hypothetically 
be saved and enjoying better pianos at no greater long-term cost.  How could 
they argue with that?  They can't,  they can only question it from a postion of 
ignorance.  
    All sorts of things are done on the speculation that they will work, ie,  
government budgets, building contracts, wars, you know, stuff.    

just a thought.....   
Ed Foote RPT 
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html