Word: audits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge research-and-development program that explores energy sources from wind to thermonuclear fusion. The new department will also create some new sections, notably an Energy Information Administration, which will develop reliable statistics about oil and gas output and reserves, and an Economic Regulatory Administration, which will audit and police the energy companies more closely...
Hundreds of millions more have been stolen from assorted health and welfare programs. Virtually every audit turns up new hanky-panky by the entrepreneurs and "community leaders" who are supposed to serve the poor. Newfield recalls a typical 1974 dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic group whose hero was Mayor Abraham Beame. Seven of the guests have since been convicted of felonies (including two Congressmen) and several more are now under judicial and ethical clouds. From such organizations Beame drew much of his management talent...
...expert consultant whom Harvard has hired to study the University police force said yesterday he will begin a "complete management audit" of the force next month to examine the organizational problems that have dogged the department for the past two years...
Most of the freshmen in line for dinner outside the Union last night took the surprise audit in stride, although a few expressed bewilderment at the new machine the checkers were using to examine their cards...
Other students expressed annoyment at the inconvenience the audit caused...