Word: performance
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...only is the Pentagon coming in for rising criticism, but its civilian suppliers as well. Congress and the public are deeply concerned about the spiraling costs of new weapons systems and their frequent failure to perform up to expectations. High prices and technical flaws plague many major weapons systems, including the Army MBT-70 tank (prime contractor: General Motors), the Navy LHA assault-ship program (Litton) and the Air Force Short-Range Attack Missile (Boeing). Last week all the censure converged on two huge defense projects, the Air Force C-5A transport and the Army AH-56A Cheyenne helicopter. Both...
...stability and control problems had shown up in tests of ten prototypes, one of which crashed. Some critics believe that the Cheyenne was a classic example of "brochuremanship"-the practice of selling the Pentagon on a new weapons system even before the contractor is reasonably certain that it can perform to specifications. Lockheed's Chairman Daniel Haughton protested last week that the Cheyenne's problems were "normal and to be expected in achieving a major technological step forward." He promised to fight in court against both the cancellation and the Army's planned attempts to recover about...
Want to relax to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Persichetti, Debussy, and Chopin? Flee to Holmes Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow for a piano recital. Here Jane Myers perform Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Persichett, Debussy, and Chopin...
...until eleven months later, after Wolfson had been indicted for defrauding stockholders-but he had also agreed to accept $20,000 a year for life. The payments were to go to his wife Carolyn, also a lawyer, if she survived him. The services he or his widow were to perform were spelled out only vaguely in his case. He had intended, he told Warren, to "help shape" the program and activities of the foundation, whose stated aim was to further racial and religious harmony. There was no explanation of Mrs. Fortas' role. While Fortas denied interceding for Wolfson with...
...whippers; her lover, unable to watch, jumps to his death. Other prisoners follow his example like an audience seeking exits during a fire. "Let's have order here," decrees the commandant, a connoisseur of chaos and a predecessor of the concentration-camp officers who would one day perform the same tasks with greater efficiency...