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I do not know whether Sarah Boyack remembers the American advertisement showing Richard Nixon, which I think carried the slogan, "Would you buy a second-hand car from this man?"
The commissioner, using his budget, would probably buy in some research from university research departments and units; he would not necessarily do it all himself.
Ewan Aitken, from Edinburgh, could go to Polwarth, knock on the door of the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School and say, "Let's talk and do a deal. We'll buy places and put Edinburgh schoolchildren into the Steiner school."
Housing availability is also an issue, although it is clear that some manufacturers are solving that problem by buying housing and hotels to provide accommodation.There are financial constraints on local government, particularly on the local authority's flood fund.
A high proportion of pubs in Scotland is owned by national multiple companies and leased to individual licensees, who pay rent and have to buy some products through those companies.
That idea is just as likely to create tensions and do damage.The savings that work in modern organisations are those that get the full buy-in of all the people involved and that result in re-engineered approaches to the delivery of services.