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...report blames the price hikes not only on the suppliers but on Pentagon purchasing agents for failing to insist on greater competition among parts manufacturers, and for not reforming contracting procedures to prevent absurd markups. In practice, Pentagon agents tend to prefer "sole source" contracts with a major manufacturer, who will acquire the parts from subcontractors and take a profit as middleman. When bids on parts are sought, the Pentagon's buyers often deem the competition "adequate" even if the only "bidders" are the prime contractor and one of its subcontractors, whose business often depends upon remaining on good...
...State Department seems to be unaware of the scope of the illicit deals. "We have heard these rumors of U.S.-supplied restricted military items getting to Iran for years," says Barbara Schell, the desk officer responsible for Iran, "but there is no proof." American diplomats insist that they do not secretly condone the shipment of arms to either of the belligerents in the three-year-old Iran-Iraq...
Like many institutions of higher learning. Harvard might best be described as a marketplace of ideas, engaged in the age-old business of dispensing grains of knowledge and pounds of cynicism in exchange for tons of money. While some officials might cringe at the analogy--or insist, at least, that Harvard be known as the Nieman-Marcus of the academic world--the University-as-store model can be tremendously helpful in understanding who's in charge around here...
...ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many of them love, with its admirable past and its actual respectable achievements, potentials, and capacities...
...posted in schools that have bilingual programs. The first priority of every immigrant should be to learn the language of the adopted country. Placing non-English-speaking students in separate classes merely prolongs the painful road of integration. Minorities will be second-class citizens as long as they insist on isolating themselves...