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...understand the Harvard Dining Services' philosophy that calls for buying in bulk when the local food distributor is having a blue light special. When ground round prices drop by 20 cents a pound on the beef market, for example, Harvard's experts in edible commodities should stock up. Think of the possibilities: hamburgers, tacos, meatloaf, meatballs...
Still, I was surprised by how uninspiring government work could be, even in the office of my senator, one of the Northeast's most powerful politicians. Xeroxing, filing, opening the 700 to 1,000 pieces of mail we received each day, answering phones and other clerical tasks formed the bulk of my assignments. It was about as thrilling as a PBS documentary on the mating rituals of the three-toed tree sloth...
...testimony to the continuing American interest in South Africa, seven years after the U.S. Congress enacted its economic boycott of the country. Nearly 170 firms, including Pan Am, Uniroyal and IBM, sold or closed their South African operations between 1985 and 1990. Since the Bush Administration repealed the bulk of those sanctions in 1991, many have gradually filtered back. During the past year Lotus, Microsoft, Tambrands and 24 other U.S. firms have opened offices, established subsidiaries or placed representatives in South Africa. "We get calls every day from companies that are thinking about going back in," reports William Moses...
Cable-TV operators are the robber barons of this end of the century, having built businesses by tuning in local broadcasters' signals, then sending all ^ those programs out along their wires. That's right: what they grab for free, they sell, in bulk, to you. A year ago, after fervid lobbying by the broadcast networks, Congress passed a law obliging the cable operators to start compensating the broadcasters -- or drop the networks from the cable menus...
Purchase of the $200 billion of goods and services the feds buy every year is governed by rules that generally require centralized buying, in bulk, and after many approvals (an average of 23 signatures on each government printing order, by one calculation). That system may have had some advantages in the 1940s, but it is out of tune with modern markets. Buying a computer, for example, takes about a year for a desktop model, up to three years for a mainframe. Employees at Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Atlanta and many other government offices complain that their computers are usually...