Word: bailiwick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before leaving the Pentagon, McPeak pointed out the excess in his own bailiwick, the U.S. Air Force. While the Air Force is the world's largest, with 3,200 planes, the U.S. Navy's warplane fleet of 1,900 ranks as No. 3, after China's 2,800, he pointed out. Not a single one of the U.S.'s currently likely foes has more than about half the number of planes that the U.S Navy alone has. McPeak maintains that the costly demands to outfit and train some 1.5 million troops for two wars is bleeding dry the military...
...Speaker-presumptive NEWT GINGRICH's government-trimming, voter-pleasing butcher's knife. Proposed initiatives -- none of which the President has yet agreed to -- include merging the Interior and Energy departments and abolishing Commerce altogether. While neither step looks likely, Commerce Secretary RON BROWN is already maneuvering to keep his bailiwick intact...
...housing lottery system of non-ordered choice has brought students of all stripes into what was once the bailiwick of black-clad artistes. In the dining hall, gov now lunch check by jowl with literature concentrators...
...points the ruling Likud Party, which faces June elections, scored with voters at home for its accommodating stand were offset by a scathing report from well- respected State Comptroller Miriam Ben-Porat. It charged Prime Minister Shamir's administration with widespread mismanagement, singling out Housing Minister Ariel Sharon's bailiwick as particularly plagued with malfeasance. Now the attorney general is considering whether to recommend an investigation of the ministry for possible criminal wrongdoings...
...hodgepodge system of food regulation. Three federal agencies have jurisdiction. The FDA oversees all items sold in supermarkets except for meat, poultry and any products that are more than 2% meat. These products are monitored instead by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Food advertising, meanwhile, falls within the bailiwick of the Federal Trade Commission. To see how muddled it gets, consider the case of frozen pizza. Cheese pizza and its packaging belongs to the FDA, while pepperoni pizza and its labeling rests with the USDA. The FTC approves ads for both. Contributing to the chaos: the agencies often...