At fault, Professional Contractors Group council member Gurdial Rai told the Times of India, was the Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) scheme, which allows companies to move staff between countries as long as they stay with the same firm.

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One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.

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It is, of course, their fault that they had to produce a victory in their final group match, having lost games against Ireland and Bangladesh that they should have won.

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