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Cities traditionally measure the performance of municipal agencies at annual budget drills. But Citistat regularly confronts officials with citizens' complaints about broken streetlights or inadequate policing, allowing authorities to shift personnel and resources as needed. Every two weeks, managers head to see O'Malley or his top aides on the sixth floor of city hall to account for how well they have done just that. Workers who fare well can end up with Orioles tickets; managers who fall short have wound up with pink slips. The program has saved the city $100 million, O'Malley aides say. Last year Harvard...
...Congressman's desire to protect his home turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would guarantee them the funds anyway. The transport plane is made by Beech Aircraft, which is owned by Raytheon Co., which happens to be in Massachusetts, the home state of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He reportedly told Aspin "not to come back" from the conference without funds for the aircraft...
Harvard was left with only one keeper on its lineup but needed to dress out two for games. To exacerbate the Crimson’s personnel problems, its second goalie, junior Kristen Demorest, soon fell ill with bronchitis...
Today blacks constitute perhaps 60% of the country's total work force. There are black doctors, lawyers, bankers, supermarket managers, advertising executives, personnel managers. There are even a few black tycoons who have made fortunes in retailing and trading...
...parts in such movie hits as Ghostbusters and Amadeus, computer graphics has become part of the standard repertoire of filmmakers and art directors. But the technology is not restricted to Hollywood and Madison Avenue. The Defense Department has invested heavily in complex simulators that use computer graphics for training personnel in the use of tanks, jets and submarines. In the simulators that help teach pilots to fly the CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter, the computer graphics alone can cost $3 million...