Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater than from any single action during almost three decades of nonstop warfare. The country's budding industrial economy is all but shattered. The number of new homeless refugees now clogging city slums stands at 650,000 and is still climbing; and there were already 800,000 refugees pre-Tet. Saigon has not even begun to calculate its civilian dead, and the countrywide figure, when complete, may well exceed...
...biggest leak in the Defense Budget comes from another source: the process of procuring goods and services, which cost $44 billion this year. This process involves two stages: Pre-awarding of contracts, and Post-awarding of contract...
...pre-award stage the Defense Department determines the type of contract and the process of entering it. The Defense Department has a Fixed Price type of contract, in which it pays a predetermined fixed price, and a Cost type of contract, in which it pays the cost of fulfilling the contract...
Because of the sloppiness and negligence of the pre-award stage, the last safeguard for the Defense Department is a post-audit. The DOD, however, generally neglects to post-audit any of its contracts, and has purposely avoided post-auditing Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts. (FFP contracts account for $22 billion in procurement!) In the past DOD failed to post-audit FFP contracts not because it didn't have the authority--the Truth in Negotiations Law gave them the authority--but because there were no internal regulations requiring it. Under intense Congressional pressure, McNamara finally established such regulations last October...
...media have focused their ire on the ABA recommendation that judges use the threat of contempt rulings to enforce restrictions on pre-trial publicity. The media have charged that such judicial interference would be a blatant violation of the first amendment...