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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
descope .
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Examples
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MSL has been descoped from the original conception.
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After this "study", the Constellation program will be descoped, just as Freedom was at the beginning of the Clinton Administration.
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When the 1999 orbiter and lander were lost, the 2001 lander (which was in 1997 a rover but by 1999 had been descoped to a lander) was cancelled.
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A wisely but unabashedly edited list of (descoped?) functions.
Making Programming Easier For Kids With PyJunior | jonobacon@home 2010
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If a Democrat is elected, the manned space program will be descoped in terms of vision and slowed operationally¬ † to maintain the status quo while providing just enough funding to create the impression (especially for voters in Florida, Texas, and California) that the program is alive and well.
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It was my hope space development and space settlement could mitigate the worst that could happen, but with a billions of dollar overbudget, years behind schedule descoped space station, a lunar return that hangs by a thread in Congress and the Administration, and a US populace that is largely clueless (see Ashton Kutcher article above), I'm beginning to think a new Dark Age is coming, and coming soon.
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It doesn't hurt a project to be descoped -- a project is only a means to an end.
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If NASA wants as many launches as it can get, with low bang-for-the-buck, descoped payloads, then it is on the right path.
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Even if you know that you will be descoped when you overrun, which is the "discipline" that is currently in vogue, you will still take this path, since you'd rather be eventually descoped than not selected in the first place.
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It is both morally and ethically wrong not to specifically forwarn the contract positions that will be descoped in the near furture.
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