The contractor listened to the polite, measured tones that came through the phone line. The caller had worked some magic on his pit-bull secretary who screened his calls; cutting off the unneeded or unwanted ones, passing the semi-important ones to his subordinates and giving him only the callers to whom she thought he should talk. After all, he was a busy man overseeing all the projects his company had in various stages of production. The caller explained that he represented a material supplier that could save the contractor time and money on a hotel project just now coming out of the ground.