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We are flirting with detail overload. Pavel P., one of the interpreters whose job it is to work a console and participate in executing the "operator's script" at the выносной командный пункт (remote command post, aka "the bunker"), was prevented from entering the facility for several minutes a little while ago due to a bureaucratic screwup. That caused a flurry of phone calls to get him inside to his work place soonest.

I'm studying the agenda for this evening's Government Commission meeting... and the program director has just come in with a hot letter for translation...