Word: dango
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...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...
...what is a conventional musical comedy doing in a place like the Fan-Dango Dance Hall? Even Charity's own creators cannot come to grips with this question, and the result is a rather schizophrenic entertainment--one with a heart torn between the land of sleazy booze and the safer confines of Shubert Alley...
...desperation of "Big Spender" never disappears from Charity entirely, and that is all in its favor. (Some time later, when Charity and her two cohorts sing a fiery plea for a better life on the Fan-Dango rooftop, director-choreographer Bob Fosse frames it with the "Spender" chorus line, for chilling results.) Yet some of the time--too much of the time--Charity seems hopelessly stuck in the mire of the heroine's never-never land...
Lost-Fox terrier bitch ; head half black, body marked with small black spots ; answers to the name of Dango. A suitable reward will be paid on the return of same to the janitor of Beck Hall...