UBJECT: IF 99.9% IS GOOD ENOUGH THEN... If 99.9% is good enough then... * 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily * 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year * 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour * 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year * 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers * Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day * 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled * 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year * 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips * 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year * 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat * 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly * 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections * A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds)