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There are other complications about bloodlines, old-boy and old-girl networks, the FBI and a touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...
Smaller universities charge that the larger ones are using "an old-boy network," in the words of a Senate aide, to keep federal funds among them-selves, while large universities such as Harvard claim that the peer review system makes the most efficient use of the taxpayers' dollars...
While the HIID's reputation earns it grants to do development work worldwide, in the case of the Philippines many of its projects came about through the "old-boy" network. Timmer was asked by a former student of his at Stanford, who is a Philippine official, to head a task force on food logistic issues. And Thomas was contacted by his former student Alvarez, Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...Worse, EDS Chairman Ross Perot, who is now GM's largest stockholder (11.3 million shares) and a member of the board of directors, has become a burr in Smith's side. Perot has publicly sniped at the automaker's management for its isolation, resistance to change and indulgence in old-boy perks like chauffeured limousines...
...have to cut costs even more dramatically if he hopes to quiet the company's sharp- tongued gadfly, H. Ross Perot, chairman of Dallas-based Electronic Data Systems. Perot, who joined the GM board when the automaker bought EDS in 1984, has particularly attacked GM's slowness in curbing old-boy management perks like chauffeur-driven cars and executive dining rooms...