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...house was definitely sold to the lowest bidder," says Oliver J. Rando '93. It's a teenage house. It has acne. If you look at the cement you can see all the pockmarks...
...promote the agendas of their private-sector clients." But the problem isn't only foreign lobbyists. As long as presidential candidates rely on the advice of those whose salaries are paid by special interests, foreign or domestic, they reinforce the impression that government is for sale to the highest bidder...
When cornered, Perot can be as fierce as the rattlesnake whose fangs he keeps preserved in a glass bowl in his office. When EDS lost part of the lucrative Texas Medicaid contract to a rival firm in 1980, Perot employees promptly dug up enough dirt on the winning bidder to overturn the contract award. One of Perot's current business ventures, run by his son Ross Jr., is to develop the land around Fort Worth's new Alliance Airport, which sits on property that the Perot family shrewdly donated (thus vastly increasing the value of the adjoining acreage they kept...
...world's highway Goliath become the superpower of potholes? A major reason is that in its haste, America built on the cheap. Across the nation, state and local governments have tended to award competitive contracts to the lowest bidder, often meaning they got the shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work. In addition, the Federal Government has encouraged neglect by subsidizing new construction or major restructuring at 90 cents to the dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying...
They all went to the highest bidder last night (for $310, $1000 and $90, respectively) at the third annual auction to benefit the Kennedy School of Government's Summer Internship Fund...