“Ma’am, what I’m trying to make you understand is that we don’t focus on road construction,” the leader of the strategy team said, looking me square in the face.
I smiled. “I know you don’t — but can we do it?” I asked.
He hesitated. “Of course we can, but there will be many big corporations going for this. The previous chairperson avoided big confrontations like that,” he added, still looking worried
“As you can see,” I said, “this is not the previous administration. This is new. We’re trying to drag this company out of the backwater condition the previous holders left it in. Railroad reconstruction is small fry for our company, it’s not out of our reach, and it’s not a contract we can’t win.”
“We can win the contract,” another woman in the meeting said, “but for years we’ve avoided i
