Word: gao
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...GAO report, however, has even more pessimistic conclusions that have Reid cheering. The Energy Department has projected that the Yucca Mountain repository will end up costing $57.5 billion and it wants to finish the project by 2010. But the GAO report predicts that the Energy Department not only won't meet those goals but that it also "has no reliable estimate of when, and at what cost, such a repository could be opened." Getting the repository up and running by 2013 is even "questionable," the GAO concludes...
...airport security screeners miss more than 20% of the potentially dangerous items that pass through X-ray machines, according to the GAO. Their European counterparts are reportedly twice as effective. Reasons? TRAINING: U.S. screeners spend 12 hours in class; those in France study for 60 hours. SALARY: U.S. screeners start at $5.15 an hour, with minimal benefits; Belgian screeners make $14 an hour, with health care, vacation, sick pay, bonuses and a track to managerial positions. TURNOVER: In Europe, less than 50% annually; in the U.S., on average, 126% annually...
...series of government oversight reports have served as a stinging indictment of the sorry performance here at home. Passenger screeners routinely miss about 20% of the weapons and explosives that FAA agents try to slip by them, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO). FAA agents have also found that it is easy to pose as an airport or airline employee or even as a law-enforcement agent...
...These days Chinese PDA makers are hungrily pursuing customers like Gao, who represent long-term salvation from a price war in the mainland's fledgling but fast-growing PDA market. There are as many as 100 rivals in this slugfest, ranging from market leaders Hi-Tech Wealth, Meijin and Legend Computers, to manufacturers better known for selling refrigerators. Their tactics are predatory. In brutal marketing campaigns with names like Plan A (inspired by a popular Jackie Chan action flick), they have cut prices by a gut-wrenching 40%. "I'm the worst one when it comes to challenging...
Person of the Week SPIES LIKE US? Just days before Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit, Beijing experienced a bout of benevolence, releasing three Chinese-born U.S. scholars convicted on charges of spying for Taiwan. Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang were sprung on "medical grounds," while Li Shaomin was expelled...