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In the annals of management science, it is well understood that making the best choice at each stage of a process may not yield the best global solution. This principle is aptly illustrated by Scott Adams in The Dilbert Future (New York: HarperBusiness, 1997), where Dilbert reports to his pointy-haired boss: "You saved one million dollars by having programmers in Elbonia write software for us. But ...