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Sometimes the "$100 hammer syndrome" comes from legitimate, special specs. I remember a few years ago a hue and cry from the right-wing press (remember who was in the White House then) because the Air Force was paying something like $100 for a coffee carafe for one of its aircraft. Then some enterprising reporter asked one of the airlines how much they paid--turned out to be the same price, because it had to be able to sustain a 10g impact without shattering....