Word: sweep
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...revealed that eight smaller units were bought this year, without competitive bidding, at $12,000 apiece. Commodore Stuart Platt, the Navy's first "competition advocate general," called the $16,571 payment "ridiculous." As he inspected the unit in Norfolk last week, he promised, "We are not trying to sweep this under the rug. We are learning from our mistakes." Indeed, the amount of Navy purchases made through competitive bidding increased from 26% in 1982 to 38% last year. The results so far have been encouraging. When the refrigerator contract was put out for bids this July, the Navy...
...tragedy came during a major army sweep through the mountainous department of Morazán, a rebel-infested area 115 miles southeast of San Salvador. The 400-man helicopter assault, named Operation Torola 4 and directed by Monterrosa, inaugurated the army's new strategy of "air-mobile warfare" less than a week after President Duarte's historic peace meeting with rebel leaders in La Palma. Though few rebels were found, the maneuvers yielded documents and other information about how the insurgents are organized. Monterrosa was well aware of the risks in such an operation: two days before...
...most respects, Harkin is the model liberal: pro-choice, strongly supportive of Carter's human rights policies, critical of the Pentagon's "gold-plated tinkertoys", and concerned about the budget deficit. He was first elected to represent one of Iowa's most conservative districts in the 1974 Watergate sweep, and held on to its loyalties with unstinting constituent service and passionate defense of agricultural interests...
Reagan strategists this week said the visit has two purposes to help the President win a 50 state sweep, and to boost the underdog candidacy of Shamie, whose primary opponent Elliot L. Richardson '41 reportedly was urged by some White House officials...
...that the play is unworthy of resuscitation. Edmond Rostand was 29 when he wrote Cyrano; he seasoned this tale of a 17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of rose-scented air in the stolid cathedral of naturalism. Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted...