Gross describes the IRS's information network as a "stovepipe" system--vertically aligned computers that do not communicate with one another.

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If a round of voting comes up short, ballots are burned and black smoke rises from a stovepipe installed at the chapel.

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The climate system is not a stovepipe and any policy response to climate change that pretends otherwise is likely to be the road to ruin.

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