Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HENRIK: Why, Sir Director McBain, did you parade my characters so stiffly across the stage? They seldom move and often declaim. Why did you work so hard to cudgel the wonderment out of the play...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Eugene McCarthy was besieged by reporters. What, they clamored, had Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said about the Gulf of Tonkin? "It was," deadpanned McCarthy, "a dark and moonless night." That climactic note, 3½ years after the encounter that overtly set the stage for the all-out U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, was one of the few certitudes about an incident that seems destined to rank in history with such hoary whodunits as the War of Jenkins...
...public good. Not so in the crucially important and rapidly expanding public sector, which embraces everyone who works for government at any level-federal, state, county and municipal-and embodies every conceivable skill, from schoolteaching to garbage disposal. In that area, labor relations are in a primitive stage...
...will find a Merrill Lynch lecturer on hand. The firm's representatives work with department stores to give women a combination stock market education and fashion show; one of the gimmicks used is a dress made of material with a stock-certificate pattern. As another example, onto the stage strolls a leggy model wearing one of the latest styles in stockings. Says the fashion commentator: "Aren't they lovely? These are opaque crepes by Hanes called Flower Pow." At which point the Merrill Lynch man interjects: "Hanes-now there's an interesting stock! Our research division gives...
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...