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Meanwhile, the GAO in mid-July questioned the sampling methods used in the University's independent audit--conducted by accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand--and the allowability of $54,000 in expenditures over and above those withdrawn...
Within the additional $54,000, the GAO questioned reimbursement requests for Bok's travel expenses and for pension benefits for Graduate School of Design Dean Gerald M. McCue, who will step down this year to return to teaching. In addition, the GAO is examining reimbursements for a shuttle bus service, for athletic facilities, and for $9,500 used to recruit a professor...
Lack of Readiness. Over the past three years, the government's General Accounting Office has issued several reports about slipshod training and severe shortages of equipment in Guard units around the country. Among the items listed in the GAO's February 1991 study: during a training exercise, one unit had only 40% of the chemical-warfare equipment it needed; a helicopter battalion was unable to practice because it was given only two usable antitank missiles for live-fire exercises; and an infantry battalion received only 19 of the 60 TOW missiles it had requested. All too often, the GAO reported...
...would require 3,700 hours a year of dangerous spacewalking to maintain. Recently NASA scaled back the space station, shaving, it said, about $8 billion off the cost, but the General Accounting Office pegged the price of this new space station at $40 billion. The long-term cost, the GAO said, could amount to $118 billion, which puts the station in the same league as the S&L bailout and the Advanced Tactical Fighter...
...When the GAO has completed its inquiries into indirect costs, it will prepare a comprehensive report on its findings for the subcommittee, an investigator says...