Word: costello
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medley relay team of Sheila Findley, Mia Costello, Mary Quinn and Linda Suhs opened the evening's competition triumphantly, finishing in 1:45.16. Their time of 1:44.65 in the trials held earlier yesterday shattered the existing EWSL record by more than a second. That time also qualified the quarter for NCAA competition, to be held in Austin, Texas, in March...
...Costello put forth another unrivalled performance, leading the Crimson with two individual victories and a triumph in the 200-yd. medley relay. The sophomore retained her stranglehold on the breastroke events, capturing the 100-yd. in 1:05.27 and snagging...
...sheer size of the job is enough, but Costello, a former General Motors executive, also faces the task of restoring efficiency and respectability to an operation riddled with waste, tarred by scandal and engulfed by criticism from Congress and the press. The stakes are enormous: unless Costello spends the Pentagon's money wisely, the Soviet Union will overtake the U.S. in the military technology race. Admiral Kinnaird McKee, director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, has warned that Soviet submarine technology "is rapidly catching up with that in the West...
...While Costello's task is to keep the U.S. ahead, he must do so at a time of serious concern about the federal deficit and severe budget constraints. Carlucci, who last November succeeded Caspar Weinberger, the freest-spending Defense Secretary in U.S. history ($2.4 trillion in just under eight years), has ordered that planned Pentagon outlays in the fiscal 1989 budget now being prepared must be cut by $33 billion...
Congress created Costello's post in 1986 following disclosures of huge cost overruns by defense contractors and allegations that companies had, among many other offenses, billed the Pentagon for their executives' country-club fees and charged as much as $7,500 for a coffeepot used in aircraft. The principal remedy, lawmakers thought, would be to centralize all procurement authority in the hands of a single individual. Until then, such power had been spread among a myriad of departments. Said Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat: "We envisioned a czar who would kick trash cans and have rats jump...