Word: excessives
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...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...
Wretchedly funny excess seems the point of the exercise, not to mention the hallmark of the years portrayed. Pynchon's technique is to turn up the volume on contemporary reality, fiddle with the contrast and horizontal hold, in order to produce scenes that are both distorted and recognizable, and a pretty good indication of where all the current trends may be heading...
...Front its support, the ad hoc alliance faces the task of ending civil strife and imposing law-and-order on a country flooded with weapons and a thirst for retribution. Says a Western military attache: "Proper law-and-order can be restored only when the army takes all excess weapons out of circulation. But it can do that only when it has won the confidence of the population...
...made a believer out of John Boyles, chief of the Wild Horses and Burros division of BLM. "The situation ((at Mustang Meadows)) is about as close to natural as you can get," says Boyles. "As long as Congress says we can't destroy healthy excess animals, the sanctuary gives us the least-cost alternative to keeping the horses we can't place in private homes." BLM has awarded a contract for a second sanctuary in Oklahoma...
...should be some place in the U.S. for wild horses because they're so important in our past," says Boyles. "But we recognize the range is only going to support so many. The two basic questions are, How many should we have? and What should we do with the excess animals?" Until these questions are answered, sanctuaries can provide mustangs a haven somewhere between unbridled liberty and galloping into extinction...