Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insists that he will not cut deeply into the operations-and-maintenance account, which pays for such items as training, ammunition and spare parts and has been a favorite target for past budget cutters. He is also determined to avoid "stretch-outs," the common practice of maintaining orders for tanks, say, or fighter planes but buying fewer each year than originally planned. Stretch-outs often cause production to fall below economic rates, so that the Pentagon ultimately pays more for each tank, plane or ship...
...Notes from the House of the Dead to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and now Natan Sharansky's Fear No Evil, they reveal a world of unrelenting human degradation: the bestiality of the jailers, the dog-eat-dog struggle among the prisoners, the treachery of the informers. Each account evokes the stench, the rattle of fetters, the heart-stopping cold, the killing hard labor. Still, each author used different stratagems to survive, to prevail as a human being and, ultimately, to bear witness...
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...
...Peters' book is destined to be disappointing in parts. It tends to treat issues involving race and poverty as grist for abstract ideas rather than emotional commitment. It occasionally lapses into homilies rather than serious expositions of a philosophy. Yet it is the simple goodness of these homilies that accounts for much of Peters' allure. With a sweetness and grace that make him the least jaded journalist in Washington, Peters turns Windmills into an inspiring account of a good man's quest for ideas that make sense and for deeds that can make a difference...
...hardest choice when suing Harvard is to decide whether to file in state or federal court. "The federal bench has a large number of Harvard graduates," Gertner said. "What will someone educated at Harvard Law School and Harvard College feel about this case? You need to take that into account...