Mispromotion

Mr. Speaker, the legal theory of Brown against Topeka rejecting a denial of freedom of choice because of race has suffered mispromotion to the point that today “freedom of choice" is again illegal.

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The rapid decrease in fat trim of retail beef cuts in the U.S. from 1986 (13mm) to 1988 (< 3mm) (Cross et al 1988 ) is surely an indication that institutionalised "imposition" of an historic quality grading system can result in a mispromotion of product with costs of heroic proportions.

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“There is a strong incentive for employees to report mispromotion or other acts that might be regarded as a false claim – whistleblowers get 15 to 30 percent of what the government collects,” he points out.

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This mispromotion phenomenon has become popularly known as the Peter Principle (12).

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