Word: gao
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...make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many of the nation's 80,000 public schools. Another GAO report has estimated that repairing and upgrading schools would cost $11 billion. Clinton plans to pay for his $5 billion program with funds from the federal government's auctions of communications licenses, which have generated about $20 billion. But the Republican-led Congress is unlikely to welcome another federally-funded...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As many as 250,000 attempts are made every year to infiltrate Pentagon computers, according to a government study released Wednesday. The GAO report said that hackers made more than 160,000 successful entries into military computer networks last year. It recommended that the Pentagon create a greater degree of computer file accountability, institute rigorous training in computer security and develop better capability for reacting to computer break-ins. GAO information management chief Jack Brock told a Senate subcomitte hearing of an infamous 1994 case where a16 year old British teenager broke into the computer...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As many as 250,000 attempts are made every year to infiltrate Pentagon computers, according to a government study released Wednesday. The GAO report said that hackers made more than 160,000 successful entries into military computer networks last year. It recommended that the Pentagon create a greater degree of computer file accountability, institute rigorous training in computer security and develop better capability for reacting to computer break-ins. GAO information management chief Jack Brock told a Senate subcomitte hearing of an infamous 1994 case where a16 year old British teenager broke into the computer...
...first lady's wishes." Counsel Starr was already investigating Watkins' statements concerning the travel office in his inquiry into the suicide of former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster. Janet Reno wrote the court that "It would be appropriate to expand his jurisdiction to include Watkins' statement to GAO on that same subject," she said. Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton told congressional investigators in a written response that she doesn't remember discussing the travel office firings with Watkins and that she played no part in the dismissals. The travel office staff was fired soon after the Clinton's arrived...
...managed-care companies renewed their contracts for 1996, but their support for TennCare is tenuous at best. The gao report suggests that if their concerns are not addressed, they "could withdraw in large numbers." Robert Corker, the Tennessee commissioner of finance, insists that the state is still working on making TennCare more responsive to providers. But if federal money is cut next year, the state may be faced with the stark choice of slashing rates still further or dropping coverage for thousands of residents...