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Mary L. Schapiro: We have to be absolutely open to learning all the lessons that this tragedy can teach us and moving ahead to put those…

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
We have to be absolutely open to learning all the lessons that this tragedy can teach us and moving ahead to put those kinds of changes in place in a very aggressive way.
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Mary L. Schapiro

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Stresses the need for learning from failures to improve future operations.

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