6,000-mile screwdriver
n.— «Military command-and-control systems are said to provide commanders with six-thousand-mile screwdrivers.» —by Lee Sproull, Sara Kiesler Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization June, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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