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...Ford agency is in the middle of nowhere. Like many cities of the "new" south, there's a beltway ringing the town. You have to ride fifteen miles to get here. It's nothing but car dealerships and light industry. There's no reason to be here unless you're here to see the car. You just don't happen...
...Beltway Bandits. The Carter White House likes to boast that there are 40,000 fewer federal employees today than in 1976. True enough. But there also happen to be 30,000 more part-time federal employees. Moreover, the Government pays between $4.5 billion and $5 billion a year to private contractors, those burgeoning consulting firms known as the "Beltway Bandits" for their location on Route 495, which encircles the District. President Carter has tried to cut back the use of consultants, but like the other beneficiaries of Big Government, they are getting stronger all the time...
...North Berwick, Me., home of a new Pratt & Whitney jet-engine-parts plant, and old New Haven, Conn., where G & O Manufacturing Co. is building a new $5 million automotive radiator factory. The most glittering showcase is the string of high-technology companies ringing Boston on the Route 128 beltway led by giants like Polaroid, Raytheon and Itek. Massachusetts' 300 hi-tech firms now employ 150,000 workers...
...because there is no clear definition of a "consultant contract," GAO officials admit that the figure could just as easily top $5 billion. There are more than 1,000 firms in the advising business in the Washington area alone, and for years they have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city. Trying to get a grip on their multifarious activities, says Pryor, "is like wrestling with an 800-lb. marshmallow...
According to Western intelligence estimates, they controlled the five main population centers, the three big airfields at Bagram, Shindand and Kandahar, and all the important intersections of the paved "beltway" linking Kabul and other main Afghan cities...