"You have now engineered an outcome whereby I require your cooperation to implement the requisitioned changes without the need for wasted costs and are using this in an attempt to extract a profitable exit from the company.
Still, even on this side of the Atlantic, confidence in the U.S.'s ability to engineer a good outcome is at a low.
"The myth is that the promotion of social mobility means lowering standards, or somehow dumbing down, to socially engineer a particular outcome," he said.
The "information" was that Mr Estoup had had friendly relations with Mr Tapie and his lawyer for many years; that Mr Richard knew all about that but did not inform her; that the Elysée Palace also knew and had been working, with the help of Mr Richard, to engineer a good outcome for Mr Tapie's interminable legal action against the state for many months.
In addition, the Karzai administration's effort to redress the complaints has precipitated a crisis of its own and drawn charges that the president is trying to engineer a more favorable outcome for himself.
The winning candidates and several Afghan and international officials say the court has no jurisdiction, and Mr. Karzai's opponents charge that the president is trying to engineer a more favorable outcome for himself.
In an attempt to engineer a more positive outcome to my social experiment, I decided to attend a wheelchair-basketball tournament.
However the anti-Adani group, Wangan and Jagalingou Family Council, has released a statement describing it as a "sham meeting which has engineered a sham outcome".
The task then was to engineer the outcome.
"It was obvious where public opinion lay, it was obvious she was mentally ill, it was obvious where the professional organizations would like the case to go, but it would be wrong to distort the law, to stretch the truth and try to engineer the outcome," he said.
We are deeply skeptical of government attempts to subvert markets to engineer economic outcomes, though we also believe that a private economy requires a robust public infrastructure and a social safety net to prevent some members of society from falling prey to unconscionable levels of poverty and privation that corrode our democracy.
