Once they selected the other proposal, we could have kept shopping ours around, but we would had to modify it include an aqueduct over their canal, which would be totally unreasonable.

"Panama Canal", by Randall Munroe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

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Once they selected the other proposal, we could have kept shopping ours around, but we would had to modify it include an aqueduct over their canal, which would be totally unreasonable.