Word: dango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi lomi salmon, sushi, kalua pig and cabbage, teriyaki beef, chicken long rice, dimsum, rice, haupia, coconut cake, and chi chi dango. Kama'aina (island locals) were disappointed to find that pudding-like poi was not shipped in, but otherwise the food was a success. People not familiar with the delicacies of Hawaii were encouraged to "just try everything." Even the police officers who were hired to oversee the event were seen...
...paper, according to Woodall's October statement, borrowed phrases from an article in Economics and Politics by University of California-San Diego Professor John McMillan. McMillan's article was titled, "Dango: Japan's Price-Fixing Conspiracies...
...Japan's $500 billion construction industry, bid-rigging is an established and rarely punished process that goes by the name dango. For the Pentagon, dango is an odious practice that inflates expenses by tens of millions of dollars a year on military projects in Japan. In an unprecedented case, the Justice Department announced last month that 100 Japanese firms had agreed to repay $33 million of excess profits on Navy construction projects. Reason: the companies were caught...
...tougher U.S. attitude may already be paying off. The Air Force and Justice Department are investigating charges by Arthur Williams, former chief of the contracts-law division at Yokota Air Base, that another dango association has overcharged the Air Force and Navy about $76 million on $180 million worth of communications contracts during the past ten years. Most of the firms practicing dango were window dressing for a subsidiary of NEC, the electronics firm, which consistently got most of the work...
...denies taking part in any dango for the Air Force projects. But the apparent cost to the U.S. taxpayer was dramatically illustrated after an American firm first began competing for such contracts in mid-1988. Since then, NEC has won renewed contracts for work at six military bases -- but the company's bids for the work have fallen 40% to 60%. "This had been going on for about 20 years," says Williams. "I don't think any big firm has ever defrauded us like that before...