Word: gao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traditionally, Congress and the Pentagon like to build showy weapons systems but tend to skimp on less glamorous things. The Administration has increased spending on maintenance, spare parts, fuel and other elements of combat "readiness" by only 7%. As a result, states the GAO report, only eight of the Navy's 14 aircraft carriers could put to sea within two months of the outbreak of war, and only 60% of its warplanes are combat ready...
Ironically, the government almost invited such license as it became more and more lenient. Earlier this year, for example, it tolerated a flowering of experimental and unorthodox dramas. Playwright Gao Xingjian's Bus Stop presented a story about eight people awaiting a bus that never arrives. Conspicuously absent were all the trappings of conventional Chinese drama: plot, moral and exhortation. Meanwhile, thousands of citizens were flocking to a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Miller himself at Peking's prestigious Capital Theater. The spectators sympathized so warmly with Bourgeois Protagonist Willy Loman...
...testimony provided the committee, the GAO estimated the number of federal employees subject to possible polygraph tests at about 2.5 million, nearly half of all 5.1 million federal employees. That many hold secret or higher security clearances. The GAO study noted that no fewer than 47 Government agencies now handle classified information, including the Office of Micronesian Status Negotiations, the National Labor Relations Board and the Marine Mammal Commission...
...material showing questionable practices by his predecessors. That effort struck pay dirt with the release last week of a preliminary report from the General Accounting Office, alleging that some former Legal Services officials and grant recipients violated LSC's prohibition on using funds for political organizing. The GAO, which is the investigative arm of Congress, based its 16-page report principally on a January 1981 meeting in Boulder, Colo., attended by top Legal Services officials. The report notes that Alan Houseman, then head of LSC'S research institute, along with other speakers, advocated a massive lobbying effort...
Former Legal Services officials deny that this call to political action violated LSC rules. They charge that the GAO report and other investigations are nothing more than a collateral attack on the program's existence. LSC President Bogard, who took over the agency last December, warns ominously that the apparent past abuses "could very well have an adverse effect on the continuation of the corporation...