Word: gao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Navy claimed that the 1989 gun-turret explosion that killed 47 sailors on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa was "most probably" caused by sabotage, its investigation was widely criticized as sloppy and its conclusion as unjustified. Last week testimony by the General Accounting Office gave the critics strong support. The GAO found that the disaster may not have been triggered by a crewman, Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, as the Navy hypothesized...
...inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections. For the same year, the GAO found that nearly half its samplings of 6 million notices and letters that the service sent to taxpayers were "incorrect, unresponsive, unclear or incomplete...