Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Estimates as to how much the bid rigging costs the public vary widely. Representatives of at least one trade group, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), have met with Justice Department officials to voice concern that the scope of the investigation might end up crippling the nation's road-building industry. Says NAPA President John Gray: "We felt this was overkill." But Joseph Welsch, inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, says a reliable rule of thumb is that "rigged bids cost taxpayers about 15% more than unrigged bids," a margin of greed that could add up to hundreds...
...uncertainty about the scope of private violence is a function of shame, of hushing up. Such crimes, unlike slashings or shootings on sidewalks and in taverns, often leave a victim more hurt and humiliated than outraged. Historically, beatings by one's husband, like rapes, were bad enough to suffer but more shameful still to reveal publicly. Child-rearing, no matter how harshly executed, was an entirely private matter...
...words in the Declaration of Independence, so bizarre to the Japanese, about pursuing happiness. When they find their space is finite, their resources limited and their social energy grossly deformed by the friction of overcrowding, Americans get confused and resentful; they see the world in terms of rights, whose scope is truncated by congestion...
...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...
Parkman's own labors seemed as heroic as the scope of his subject. He learned to shoot, ride a horse and maneuver a canoe, essential skills for the thousands of miles of travel that lay ahead. Mountains of old documents rose to test his fortitude. He fell victim to a variety of physical and nervous disorders. In the preface to an early volume, he mentions a vision problem that "has never permitted reading or writing continuously for much more than five minutes, and often has not permitted them at all." Somehow, he soldiered...