Major Technological Breakthrough : Back to the drawing board.

Developed after years of intensive research : It was discovered by accident.

The designs are well within allowable limits: We just made it, stretching a point or two.

Test results were extremely gratifying It works, and are we surprised!

Customer satisfaction is believed assured We are so far behind schedule that the customer was happy to get anything at all.

Close project coordination We should have asked someone else; or, let's spread the responsibility for this.

Project slightly behind original schedule due to unforeseen difficulties We are working on something else.

The design will be finalized in the next reporting period We haven't started this job yet, but we've got to say something.

A number of different approaches are being tried We don't know where we're going, but we're moving.

Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around for a while.

Preliminary operational tests are inconclusive The darn thing blew up when we threw the switch.