Lack of time? 3 --- The Chair smiled and some of the others present saw that this way of speaking had given us a special entry into the way the matters would later be handled. The Chair then asked what I would be saying in such a short time, so I took five minutes to explain what we would say. One of the developers' lawyers then foolishly said that he couldn't see how our building could have enough expertise to be present at the formal meeting to come and the Chair rapped him down and said my building would be most welcome.

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